AECOM Healthcare, Innovation & Design Lecture Series
The purpose of the AECOM Healthcare, Innovation & Design Lecture Series (formerly Ellerbe Becket) is to bring leading experts to the Twin Cities, and specifically the University of Minnesota, to talk about emerging research, innovative healing design, and best practices that optimize the health care experience for patients, family members and health care staff. The audience for this lecture includes students, faculty, staff, and community health care, architectural and design practitioners, and artists. 2011 April 1: "Ellerbe Becket/AECOM Lecture on Healthcare Innovation and Design Closing Lecture: The Infrastructure of Design" with Chris McCarthy, director of Innovation Learning Network, Kaiser Permanente Innovation Consultancy
The University of Minnesota’s “Design Intersections 2011” symposium explored the role of design in healthcare innovation, including how design can be used to improve — and, in some cases, reinvent — healthcare systems, delivery, environments, experiences and outcomes. The event was open to the public and sponsored by the university’s College of Design in partnership with Larsen, a Minneapolis-based national design, branding and interactive agency. The speakers included: Barry Kudrowitz, assistant professor of product design in the College of Design Chris McCarthy, director of the Innovation Learning Network and an innovation specialist with Kaiser Permanente Innovation Consultancy Dr. John Hallberg, assistant professor in the U of M Department of Family Medicine and Community Health; medical director, Mill City Clinic Kathleen Harder, director of the Center for Design in Health, College of Design Mary Jo Kreitzer, director, U of M Center for Spirituality and Healing; professor, U of M School of Nursing Dr. Stephen Mitrione, urgent care physician, Aspen Medical Group Gary Nyberg, principal in the Healthcare Practice Group, HGA Architects and Engineers Terri Zborowsky, director of healthcare research and education, Ellerbe Becket
2010 April 16: "Human Centered Design and Innovation in Healthcare" with Kent Lawson
 True innovation in any sector of health and medicine comes from putting the human user in the center of the design process. Leveraging the case studies and pioneering solutions of renowned design and innovation firm IDEO, Kent Lawson offered original and practical advice for implementing human-centered design for designers and providers of care in the healthcare environment. He also challenged us to identify our own inefficient or obstructive “work-arounds” in our work and home environments that can be rectified by embracing our own inherent design ideas and creating better design prototypes to achieve different outcomes. This lecture explored these viewpoints and more when Kent Lawson, IDEO’s Health + Wellness Practice Lead, hosted this year’s installment of the Ellerbe Becket Optimal Healing Environments Lecture Series.
2009 April 2: "The Compelling and Strategic Business Case for Building Optimum Healing Environments" with Blair Sadler, JD 
Cost is one of the most frequent barriers to designing and building evidence-based optimal healing environments. However, many health care leaders and architectural firms do not fully understand that there is a compelling, long-term strategic business case for doing so. Often, a return on investment analysis to demonstrate this is not undertaken. In today’s challenging economic times, it is vitally important that this be understood and implemented. This lecture explored these viewpoints and more when Blair Sadler, J.D., a senior fellow at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement and a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego Schools of Medicine and Management, hosted the latest installment of the Ellerbe Becket Optimal Healing Environments Lecture Series. Click here to view video from this presentation.
2008 October 28: "Evidence Based Design: What Do We Really Know" with Craig Zimring, PhD
May 13: "Creating Healing Spaces: Neuroscience & Architecture" with Dr. Eve Edelstein, Phd, F-AAA, Assoc. AIA Does design have power over the mind? Can certain environments actually reduce stress and encourage healing? These questions and more were explored as part of the first annual Ellerbe Becket Optimal Healing Environments Lecture Series. Emerging research revealed that specific healthcare environments can reduce stress and encourage healing, this lecture was a milestone for the Center – and for the U of M. Founder and director, Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer, co-teaches a course on Optimal Healing Environments for the graduate minor in Complementary Therapies & Healing Practices. Partnering with international design firm Ellerbe Becket, the Center was proud to unveil this first-of-its-kind event to discuss this important and emerging field of study. Featured lecturer Dr. Eve Edelstein uniquely bridged both neurobiological and architectural disciplines. She teaches neuroscience to architecture students at the NewSchool of Architecture & Design, and was a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego, where she researched the influence of the environment on mind and body. Click here to view video of this presentation.
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