Healthcare Design Awards
Seven recipients were selected in 2016 for the AIA/AAH Healthcare Design Awards. This program showcases the best healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects exhibit conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital. View all recipients.
Jurors
Left to right: David Montalba, FAIA; Sid Sanders, RA; Tatiana Guimaraes, Assoc. AIA and Doug Hocking, AIA, LEEDAP BD+C (chair) (not featured: Rosalyn Cama, Kenneth Webb, and Anthony Haas)
AIA AAH Best in Healthcare Design Under 40 (U40)
The U40 list is a nomination-oriented recognition to celebrate individuals under 40 years of age making significant contribution to the advancement of healthcare design. Candidates for the award must display leadership and innovation and take on initiatives that go beyond the project responsibilities, working toward the advancement of the industry as a whole. Each year two individuals are selected to be added to the distinguished U40 list, and this year congratulations go to Joaquim Meira & Tammy Thompson. Recommend an individual for the U40 award next year when nominations open in early 2017. Please direct all inquiries to nextgeneration.aia@gmail.com.
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Tammy Thompson AIA, EDAC, CLC / Professor of Architecture at Savannah College of Art and Design
Tammy has over ten years of experience working on healthcare design projects. She was named Healthcare Design magazine’s “HCD 10: Association Executive” winner in 2012 and honored with Engineering News Record’s Top 20 Under 40 distinction. As the president of the Institute for Patient-Centered Design, she directs its biennial innovation summit, composed of brainstorming activities held within architectural mock-ups to facilitate collaboration between health facility designers, stakeholders, clinicians, and patients. Tammy continually motivates and inspires as a patient advocate within the design profession.
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Joaquim Meira CAU-BR, AIA Intl Assoc / m2p arquitetura
Joaquim is a licensed/registered architect in Brazil, where he works as a healthcare designer and planner for the government´s public health system, and also runs a small-size architecture firm dedicated to healthcare design. He has also served as faculty in the Architecture and Interior Design undergraduate and graduate programs at Universidade da Amazônia – UNAMA. Joaquim is currently enrolled in the Master of Health Care Design Program at Kent State University (Kent, Ohio).
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2016 AIA Arthur N. Tuttle Jr. Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning and Design
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Naomi Sachs / Texas A&M
Research topic: The Healthcare Garden Evaluation Toolkit: Standardized Instruments for Evaluating Designing, and Researching Access to Nature in Healthcare Facilities.
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Arsalan Gharaveis / Texas A&M
Research topic: The Impact of Visibility on Teamwork, Communication and Security in Emergency Departments.
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Tushar Gupta, AIA