Spring 2010 News from the Center for Health Systems & Design at Texas A&M University
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insight Spring 2010 News from the Center for Health Systems & Design at Texas A&M University featured in this issue Aggies show talent at national conference charrette (page 6-7) College of Nursing graduates first class (page 11) RIPP launches to unite research, practice (page 15) Cover image: Architecture students design for Haiti (page 3) Pictured left to right: Rachel Timm, Dr. Joseph McGraw, Tine Valera CHSD welcomes three to Architecture students design for Haiti ranks of faculty fellows The CHSD faculty fellows approval the insight acceptance of three additional faculty fellows, Dr. Regina Issue 12: Spring 2010 Bently, Dr. Debra Newsletter for the Harris and Dr. Zofia Rybkowski. Dr. Bently Dr. Harris Dr. Rybkowski Center for Health Systems & Design Regina Bentley, College of Architecture • Texas A&M University EdD, RN, CNE, holds the position of Associate Dean of Academic Texas A&M Health Science Center • College of Medicine Affairs to the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Nurs- ing. Dr. Bentley’s areas of interest include: obstetrical and wom- HEALTH INDUSTRY ADVISORY COUNCIL en’s health nursing, curriculum and evaluation of curriculum, PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS cultural competency, peer mentors in nursing, smoking cessation FKP Architects, Inc. in pregnancy, and international service learning. HDR Architects, Inc. Debra Harris, PhD, is president of RAD Consultants, focusing Architecture studio project HKS Architects, Inc. on evidence-based strategic planning for healthcare systems, Haynes Whaley Associates architects and designers and product developers. Harris is a responds to Haiti earthquake The INNOVA Group consultant with more than 25 years of practice, specializing in Page Southerland Page healthcare facility design, assimilating research into evidence- Students in the Perkins + Will based strategies, and environmental forensics. sophomore design RTKL Associates, Inc. Zofia Rybkowski, PhD, is a recent faculty addition to the studio directed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott Department of Construction Science. Dr. Rybkowski’s interests Dr. Susan Rodiek Stantec Architecture include evidence-based design, environmentally sustainable and Dr. Joseph Tsoi/Kobus & Associates, Inc. architecture and construction, life cycle cost analysis, and lean McGraw work to WHR Architects construction. respond to the Wingler & Sharp, Architects & Planners, Inc. recent earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath Zimmer Gunsel Frasca Architects, LLP with their spring semester studio design project. The Haiti project focuses on addressing Pictured above: Rachel Timm, below: Rick Hasner CHSD FACULTY FELLOWS SHEA Spring the education and health deficiencies in Haiti Elton Abbott George J. Mann society by providing prototype neighborhood a consensus foundation for Sherry Bame Marlynn May slotted to elementary and high schools that address other additional and more detailed Liliana Beltran Joseph McGraw related public issues including the need for planning and design work.” Regina Bently Jody Naderi engage with functional medical clinics, public health educa- Students have shared Leonard Berry Marcia Ory professionals tion, training of the underemployed, a high important information on the John Bryant Thomas Regan level of orphans, the physically handicapped statistics of the Haiti medical Paul K. Carlton Susan Rodiek and traumatized, and injured children in need system that only provides one Minyoung Seo Cerruti Zofia Rybkowski The Student Health Environments Association (SHEA), kicks off of long-term care. doctor for every two-thousand Charles Culp Andrew Seidel the spring semester with many scheduled events. The students began the first two weeks of Haitians, the high infant Nancy Dickey Joe Sharkey Events include: the weekly Architecture for Health Lecture the project gathering and sharing social, eco- mortality rates, the decline in population at age twenty-five, the lack Michael Duffy Mardelle Shepley Series, a combined SHEA and American Institute of Architecture nomic, governmental, educational and medical of elementary and secondary education provided, overworked and Pliny Fisk Don Sweeney Students (AIAS) forum featuring Alex Ling of HKS, a healthcare research coupled with up-to-date news on the poorly paid teachers and the influence and effects of HIV-AIDs. Jeff Haberl Louis Tassinary administration informational featuring the Texas A&M Health Sci- environment since the 7.9 magnitude earth- Dr. McGraw expresses the importance of the on-the-ground knowl- Kirk Hamilton Roger Ulrich ence Center School of Rural Public Health, participation in Texas quake. Dr. McGraw explains the importance of edge gained by the students as, “an important foundation to design. Debra Harris James Varni A&M’s Big Event, an American Institute of Architects-Academy of including a scheduled time for research as it These problems stimulate and deepen the students understanding Chang-Shan Huang Judith Warren Architecture for Health (AIA-AAH) Tuttle Fellowship information- “provides the students additional opportunities providing resolution and realization to the challenges at hand.” Sarel Lavy Ward Wells al with past fellowship recipients, Plano Legacy hospital tour with to participate in the teaching/learning process The student designs aim to follow fundamental guiding questions: Chanam Lee Xuemei Zhu PSP, a tour of HDR offices in Dallas and a scheduled SHEA potluck of the studio by sharing individually gained What do we have? What do we want? How do we achieve it? party to be hosted outside the Langford Architecture Center. knowledge with others.” McGraw continues to The students will complete the project and present their neighbor- tout the research stage’s function in “providing hood educational/medical center designs at the end of the semester. 2 Insight Newsletter: Spring 2010 • Center for Health Systems & Design Center for Health Systems & Design • Insight Newsletter: Spring 2010 3 HERD journal Regan assembles recognized by architecture, construction group index Texas A&M’s former architecture dean, Thom- The Health Environments Research as Regan, has organized a and Design Journal (HERD) has been group aimed at strength- recognized and included by scholarly ening the ties between indexes in its young life in publication. construction and architec- Typical professional magazines do tural education. not received recognition and inclusion The Architecture & Regan for scholarly indexing until well past Construction Alliance, or five years of influential publication. The A+CA, is composed of the architecture HERD journal has been recognized after and construction schools throughout the only two years in print. nation. Indexing is significant to allow schol- A+CA aims to “promote integra- arly journals to be available for calling Pictured: HERD Co-Editor Kirk Hamilton tion of the two connected disciplines,” up in an index with reliable and authori- explains Regan, “and will give signifi- tative credentials. Thomson-Reuters and PubMed are cant advantage to emerging students to “We are truly excited by having been the first two that have included the be introduced in the profession.” selected for indexing,” says Kirk Ham- HERD journal. PubMed is a service of the A+CA will provide a venue online ilton, HERD Co-Editor, “and to have it U.S. National Library of Medicine and that will link faculty vitae, list ongoing Mann, Okamoto present jointly at arrive so soon is very nice support for the National Institutes of Health. and future research initiatives, allow for our activity and emphasizes we seem to The indices can be found online at: distributed funding, promote student be doing what we hoped to achieve as www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ integration, and share presented papers South American health meetings editors.” www.thomsonreuters.com/ pertaining to the disciplines. Faculty members from Texas A&M’s Department of Architecture presented the latest findings in sustainable health facility design at two international conferences in South America. Mann receives first College George Mann, professor of architecture, Kazuhiko Okamoto, and Ruka Okamoto, visiting professors of architecture, traveled to the 29th of Architecture award for annual meeting of the International Union of Architects - Public Health interdisciplinary efforts Group (UIA-PHG) Nov. 4-6 in Buenos Aires to present “Toward Sustain- able Design in Health and Hospital Facilities.” Second Opinion Mann, a member of the UIA-PHG since 1974, is the American Institute The College of Architecture selected Professor George J. of Architects’ liaison to the group, and is also a member of its executive Mann to be the first recipient of the J. Thomas Regan Interdis- leadership committee. ciplinary Faculty Prize. Kazuhiko Okamoto is an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo The prize created by Aggie former students of the Dean’s and recently returned from Texas A&M as a Kajima Corporation Visiting ‘Second Opinion’ offers CHSD faculty expert Advisory Council aims to recognize College of Architecture Scholar at Texas A&M. consultation services to hospital and architec- faculty who exhibit exemplary leadership in the interdisciplin- The three then traveled to Rio de Janeiro, presenting “Megatrends tural office inquiries as a full service to engage ary studies of their students. The award is named after dean in Health & Hospital Facility Design” to the 36th World Congress of the projects more holistically. emeritus, J. Thomas Regan, who generously promoted the International Hospital Federation (IHF)