Dan Barber is chef and co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York, and the author of The Third Plate. A fierce advocate for sustainable, ethical farming and cooking, Barber’s opinions on food and agricultural policy have appeared in The New York Times and other publications. He also co-founded Row 7 Seed Company, which brings together chefs and plant breeders to develop new varieties of vegetables and grains. Barber has received multiple James Beard awards including Best Chef: New York City (2006) and Outstanding Chef (2009). President Barack Obama appointed him to serve on the President’s Council on Physical Fitness, Sports & Nutrition. Barber continues his work to blur the line between the dining experience and the educational, bringing the principles of good farming directly to the table.

This episode was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Ideas: Health Festival. Special thanks to the Aspen Ideas team for making this happen! Bon also wrote a blog post for the event, 5 Reasons Why Clinicians Should Think Like Designers.

Episode mentions and links:

Blue Hill Farm

Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

Book: The Third Plate

Row 7 Seeds

Chef Dan Barber brings new veggie varieties to the aisle with Row 7 Seed Company

Michael Mazourek: Culinary Breeding Network

Dan’s photo credit: Richard Boll

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Follow Blue Hill Farm: Twitter | Insta

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/128

Howard Belk pulls double duty as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Creative Officer of leading global brand experience consultancy Siegel+Gale, which he claims is one (or two) of the six best jobs on the planet.

He is an entrepreneur who helped a 50-year-old branding firm reestablish industry leadership by embracing its disruptor legacy. Since his arrival at the firm in 2004, he and his colleagues have established Siegel+Gale as The Simplicity Company, truly the go-to firm to help untangle the mind-bending brand mash ups that result from the entrepreneurial adventures of the CEOs they love.

Over his career, he has partnered with Fortune 500 clients to embrace the power of simplicity, purpose, experience and design to transform and grow their companies. Today, he is one of those rare birds who understands both business and design, and more importantly how to embrace one to succeed at the other.

Episode mentions and links: 

Siegel+Gale

Siegel+Gale: CVS Case Study

Siegel+Gale: BMS Case Study

Howard’s photo credit: Madeline King

Howard’s restaurant rec: Omen

Howard’s book rec: The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

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Follow Siegel+Gale: Twitter | Insta | LinkedIn

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/127

Katie is a designer and researcher; she is a design consultant and Senior Research Associate at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design which is an Inclusive design Centre based at the Royal College of Art in London. Katie is neurodivergent (Dyslexic and Dyspraxic) and for the last 16 years has collaborated with neurodivergent people to explore ways to make their everyday lives comfortable and enjoyable. Katie has worked within a range of contexts: Supported living accommodation, mental health hospitals, garden design, healthcare services, developing design standards for the built environment and street design.

An important aspect of Katie’s PhD called: A designer’s approach: Exploring how autistic adults with additional learning disabilities experience their home environment, was to explore how to connect and engage with people beyond verbal speech. A great lesson learnt was the importance of empathy, something that can grow and develop.

Katie speaks not as an expert but as a person with lived experience and the privilege of collaborating with lots of different people. 

Episode mentions and links: 

Design Lab Podcast Ep 36 with Rama Gheerawo

Heart n Soul: Believe in Us

Streets for Diversity

Streets for Diversity Survey

Katie’s restaurant rec: The Jetty

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Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/126

Gregory Snyder is a clinical innovator and physician executive leading technology-enabled care delivery models to improve healthcare quality and safety. He is a graduate of Princeton University, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Brigham & Women’s Hospital Internal Medicine residency, and Harvard Business School. He practices hospital medicine at Mass General Brigham Newton-Wellesley and is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Mass General Healthcare Transformation Lab. Greg is Clinical Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs, and adjunct faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is focused on scaling virtual hospital at home programs and improving the quality and safety of home-based care as Vice President of Clinical Strategy & Quality Improvement for Medically Home. Greg has partnered with diverse healthcare technology ventures to improve healthcare quality, safety, value, and experience.

Episode mentions and links: 

Medically Home

Greg’s restaurant rec: Parc Philadelphia

Follow Greg: LinkedIn

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/125

Sarah DiGregorio is the critically acclaimed author of Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human and Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World. She is a journalist who has written on health care and other topics for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Slate and Insider, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her daughter and husband. For more information please visit her website: http://sarahdigregorio.com/

Episode mentions and links: 

Sarah’s Website

Book: Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World

Book: Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human

Book Review: Healing the Unsung Healers via NYT

Sarah Digregorio at HarperCollins Publishers

Sarah’s restaurant rec: Ayat NYC

Follow Sarah: Twitter | Insta | LinkedIn

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/124

Helen Czerski was born in Manchester. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London. As a physicist, she studies the bubbles generated by breaking waves in the ocean to understand their influence on weather and climate. Helen has been a regular presenter of BBC TV science documentaries since 2011. She also hosts the Ocean Matters podcast, is part of the Cosmic Shambles network, and is one of the presenters for the Fully Charged Show. She has been a science columnist for the Wall Street Journal since 2017 and she is the author of the bestselling Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, Bubbles: A Ladybird Expert Book, and Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works.

Episode mentions and links: 

Helen's Website

Helen’s latest book: The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

Helen’s other works 

Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Article by Helen: Why we need to respect Earth’s last great wilderness – the ocean - via The Guardian

Helen’s restaurant rec: Old Ship Hammersmith

Follow Helen: Twitter | Insta | LinkedIn

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/123

Knock Knock, Hi! Is a podcast and YouTube series hosted by Will and Kristin Flanary (aka the Glaucomfleckens). I had the chance to join this famous duo on their show and chat about redesigning medicine. We talk about why fax machines are still a thing, how I can die happy if we figure out how to eliminate hallway beds from ever being a thing, And how Dr. Glaucomflecken really just nailed his emergency medicine character. ICYMI we are rebroadcasting that interview for you this week on Design Lab. If you want to see the video of the episode or listen to the full episode of Knock Knock, we’ll share links in the show notes.

Episode mentions and links:

The Glaucomfleckens

Lady Glaucomflecken

Dr. Glaucomflecken

Knock Knock, Hi with the Glaucomfleckens!

Video of the episode via YouTube

Human Content Productions

"Why do hospitals still use fax machines? Jefferson's Bon Ku has no answers for medical comedian" - Via The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Tom Avril

Follow Dr. Glaucomflecken: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok

Follow Lady Glaucomflecken:  Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/122

Manuel Lima is an internationally renowned designer and author of three bestsellers that have been translated into several languages: The Book of Circles, The Book of Trees, and Visual Complexity. Named “one of the 50 most creative and influential minds” by Creativity magazine, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a leading voice on information visualization. His talks have been watched by more than three million people around the world and he has been featured in such magazines and newspapers as Wired, New York Times, Science, Nature, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Forbes, and El País. The founder of VisualComplexity.com and a regular teacher at Parsons School of Design, he has over fifteen years of experience designing digital experiences and leading product teams at such companies as Google, Microsoft, and Nokia. His new book is The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change (MIT Press, May 2023).

Episode mentions and links:

https://www.mslima.com/

Book: The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change

Manuel’s previous publications 

A Visual History of Human Knowledge via TED Talks

Six Principles for Designing Any Chart via Medium

Manuel’s restaurant rec: Asia

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Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/121

Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, MD is a psychiatrist and author, the founder of Gemma, the digital community focused on women’s mental health and equity; and a contributor to The New York Times. Her new book, REAL SELF-CARE: Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble-Baths Not Included, has been featured on Good Morning America, NPR’s Code Switch and 1A, Talks @ Google, The New York Times, Vox, and The Guardian. Pooja has spent thousands of hours taking care of women struggling with burnout, despair, depression, and anxiety in her clinical practice. Her work focuses on the intersection of mental health and gender. She frequently delivers keynotes and consults with organizations and Fortune 500 hundred companies to help women and marginalized groups feel empowered and to connect with their agency in the workplace.

Episode mentions and links:

https://www.poojalakshmin.com/

https://www.gemmawomen.com/

Hope Is Not a Thing to Have—It’s a Skill to Practice via Oprah Daily

How to Escape ‘Faux Self-Care’ via NYT

How Society Has Turned Its Back on Mothers via NYT

Pooja’s restaurant rec(s): 

Matt's El Rancho

Meanwhile Beer

Sushi Bar Hospitality

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Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/120

Sandeep Jauhar has written several bestselling books, all published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. His latest book, "My Father’s Brain," published in April 2023, is a memoir of his relationship with his father as he succumbed to dementia. In the book, Jauhar sets his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s alongside his own journey toward understanding his father’s disease.

A practicing physician, Jauhar writes regularly for the opinion section of The New York Times. His TED Talk on the emotional heart was one of the ten most-watched TED Talks of 2019. To learn more about him and his work, visit his website at www.sandeepjauhar.com or follow him on Twitter: @sjauhar

Episode mentions and links:

https://sandeepjauhar.com

My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

Sandeep’s restaurant rec: Claro BK

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Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/119

Adriane Ackerman is a community convener, strategic innovator and life-long rabble-rouser. She currently directs several programs at the Pima County Health Department in Southern Arizona, including a $4 million grant program from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health to Advance Health Literacy, the department’s new Cultural Health initiative with its pilot project, SaludArte, the emerging Pima County Network for Equity and Resilience (PCNER), and the first ever Office of Health Policy, Resilience, and Equity, all of which aim to increase health literacy and equity through innovative models, by elevating and centering the leadership of historically and contemporarily excluded communities. Adriane holds dual Bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Urban & Public Affairs and seeks to bring the depth of her lived experience to bear as she convenes, facilitates and uplifts the work of harm reduction from within bureaucracies and community partnerships.

Robert Fabricant is Co-Founder and Partner of Dalberg Design, where he brings human-centered design and innovation services to clients looking for new, creative approaches to breakthrough innovation and expanded collaborations in the field of social impact and international development. Before Dalberg, Robert Fabricant was the Vice-President of Creative for frog design, where he managed frog’s global leadership across Design Research, Product Design, Software Design, and Experience Strategy. Robert writes about Design and Social Impact for publications like HBR, SSIR, Fast Company, Rotman Business Journal, MIT Tech Review, ChangeObserver, and Core77. He is a member of the adjunct faculty at NYU and SVA. His client portfolio includes experience across verticals including financial services and financial inclusion, social impact, mobile and technology, healthcare and public health, and media. Robert has an MPS in Design and Technology from NYU and a BA from Yale University.

Episode mentions and links:

https://www.fabricant.design/

https://dalberg.com/who-we-are/our-leadership/robert-fabricant/

https://www.adrianeackerman.com/

Adriane’s previous work: https://www.portlandpeoplescoalition.org/

Adriane’s restaurant rec: La Indita (a mixture of native Sonoran, Pascua Yaqui, and Tarascan cuisine)

Robert’s restaurant rec: Le Succulent

Follow Adriane: LinkedIn

Follow Rob: LinkedIn | Twitter

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/118

Maya Friedman is a digital product design lead and art director who designs solutions for unmet needs in the health tech and femtech spaces. She currently leads the user experience, visual and sonic design for Tidepool's FDA-cleared, automated insulin dosing mobile application, Tidepool Loop. She is also the founder of The Period Project, which supports the creation of an ecosystem of software solutions, research initiatives, and education to address the unmet needs of women+ with diabetes, through the different phases of a woman’s life cycle including menstruation and pregnancy. Prior to joining Tidepool, Maya was a creative lead for Allbodies Health, designing education to improve sex, mind and body literacy. She also worked as a creative at Made Music Studios, driving the design and strategy for digital-audio experiences, most notably leading a partnership with the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum to develop an audio-first design exhibition around alarm fatigue in hospital settings. She thrives leading a team of product designers, illustrators, user researchers and sound designers to design solutions for topics such as health and body literacy, menstrual health and alarm fatigue. Maya has her MFA in Media Design practices with a focus on femtech and sextech design from ArtCenter College of Design.

Kelly Watson is VP, Product & User Experience for Tidepool, a digital health nonprofit building solutions for people with diabetes. Kelly has worked to ensure the patient, the clinician and care partners are at the center of the product design process, leading Tidepool to achieve rapid market adoption growing its global ecosystem to over 450,000 people with diabetes and 12,000 clinicians. At Tidepool, she has led partnerships with many of the world’s largest diabetes medical device companies and technology companies. Previously Kelly worked in bench research at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA (CBER-OVRR DVP) and the National Institute of Mental Health prior to building out a product design consultancy. She is an angel investor and advisor for emerging digital health startups. Kelly advocates for patient ownership of health data, interoperability and open healthcare standards.

Episode mentions and links:

https://www.tidepool.org

Tidepool loop has received FDA clearance

Tidepool loop origin story

Tidepool: Ways to give

Maya’s restaurant rec: Saffy’s

Kelly’s restaurant rec: Hook Fish Co.

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Follow Kelly: LinkedIn | Twitter

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/117

Dr. Ricardo Nuila works as an internal medicine doctor and hospitalist in his hometown of Houston. It’s hard for him to imagine practicing medicine anywhere else but at a safety-net hospital, where he focuses on a person’s healthcare problem. His experiences as a doctor gives his writing its fuel. Ricardo focuses mostly on health disparities, how policies affect real people, and the interface between art and medicine. He has written for Texas Monthly, VQR, The New York Times Sunday Review, The Atlantic.com, and The New England Journal of Medicine. He has also covered Hurricane Harvey and the COVID pandemic for The New Yorker. His short stories have appeared in the Best American Short Stories anthology as well as in McSweeney’s and other literary magazines. The New England Review published one of his short stories and awarded him with its inaugural Emerging Writer’s Award. Ricardo directs the Humanities Expression and Arts Lab (HEAL) at Baylor College of Medicine. This lab develops educational materials and experiences that weave the arts and humanities into medical education.

Episode mentions and links:

www.ricardonuila.com

Made to Care For Those Left Behind, This Hospital Leads the Way (Book Review via NYT)

Humanities Expressions and Arts Lab (HEAL)

Ricardo’s restaurant rec: Nancy’s Hustle

Follow Ricardo: Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook;

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/116

Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, professor at Olin College of Engineering, and the creator and host of the Sketch Model podcast. She is the author of What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, published by Riverhead/Penguin Random House. It was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by NPR and won the Science in Society Journalism book prize.

Sara is a humanist in tech. Her work of 2010-2020 includes collaborative public art, social design, and writing that reframes the human body and technology. Her work has been exhibited on the White House lawn under the Obama administration, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, The Vitra Design Museum, the Seoul Museum of Art, among other venues, and is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Museum. She has been a National Fellow at the New America think tank, and her work has been supported by an NEH Public Scholar grant, residencies at Yaddo and the Carey Institute for Global Good, and an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. At Olin, she was also the Principal Investigator on a four-year initiative to bring more arts experiences to engineering students and faculty, supported by the Mellon Foundation.

Episode mentions and links:

https://sarahendren.com/

Sketch Model Podcast

Engineering at Home

AccessibleIcon.org

When The World Isn't Designed For Our Bodies via NYT

Restaurants Sara would take you to: Clover Food Lab

Follow Sara: LinkedIn

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/115

Dr. Ritu Raman is the d’Arbeloff Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Her lab is centered on engineering adaptive living materials for applications in medicine and machines. Professor Raman has received several recognitions for scientific innovation, including being named a Kavli Fellow and a Ford Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences engineering and Medicine, an Army Young Investigator by the U.S. Department of Defense, and L’Oréal USA for Women in Science Fellow. She has also been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 lists, and is the author of the MIT Press book Biofabrication. She is passionate about increasing diversity in STEM and has championed many initiatives to empower women in science, including being named a AAAS IF/THEN ambassador and founding the Women in Innovation and STEM Database at MIT (WISDM). Professor Raman received her BS from Cornell University and her PhD as an NSF Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Episode mentions and links:

https://rituraman.com/

Biofabrication

At the forefront of building with biology via MIT News

Restaurants Ritu would take you to: Sofra Bakery and Cafe

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Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/114

Dr. Sunita Puri is the Program Director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, where she is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. She completed medical school and residency training in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco followed by a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Stanford. She is the author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, a critically acclaimed literary memoir examining her journey to the practice of palliative medicine, and her quest to help patients and families redefine what it means to live and die well in the face of serious illness. A graduate of Yale University and the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, JAMA, and, forthcoming, the New Yorker. She and her work have been featured in the Atlantic, People Magazine, PBS’ Christian Amanpour Show, NPR, the Guardian, BBC, India Today, and Literary Hub. She is passionate about the ways that the precise and compassionate use of language can empower patients and physicians to have the right conversations about living and dying. 

Episode mentions and links:

https://sunitapuri.com/

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour on Amazon

Why 'lost their battle' with serious illness is the wrong thing to say via NPR

We Must Learn to Look at Grief, Even When We Want to Run Away via NYT

Restaurants Sunita would take you to: 

El Condor LA

Momed LA

Worcester: Mare E Monti Trattoria

Follow Sunita: Twitter | Instagram

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/113

Dr. Dominique Allwood is a healthcare leader with almost 20 years of experience working as a medical doctor and public health physician in healthcare in the UK. She enjoys variety and juggling multiple roles and is currently Chief Medical Officer of UCLPartners, a health innovation partnership across a population of 5.2 million people, and Director of Population Health at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, at a large teaching hospital in London. She is interested in a range of areas including improving equity, population health, anchor institutions, accelerating net zero in healthcare, clinical engagement, and quality improvement. She has worked extensively across healthcare in delivery, leadership, management and advisory roles for provider and commissioner organisations, academic institutions, national policy bodies, management consultancy, charities and think tanks. She holds an MPH, has previously undertaken a Darzi Fellowship in Clinical Leadership, and is an Associate Editor for BMJ Leader Journal. She is a Governor of University College Hospital and a Board member of The

Patient Revolution in the US. She was previously named a Rising Star in the Health Services Journal and shortlisted for a prestigious national mentoring award. She is currently completing an MBA at Henley Business School.

Episode mentions and links:

Careful, kind care is our compass out of the pandemic fog

Taking one step further: five equity principles for hospitals to increase their value as anchor institutions

Restaurant Dominique would take you to: Lefteris O Politis

Bonus: This is Athens: A beginners guide to souvlaki

Follow Dominique: LinkedIn | Twitter 

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/112

Saffron Cassaday directed her first documentary feature film called Cyber-Seniors in 2014. The film followed a group of senior citizens as they learned about the internet from teenage mentors and the connections made both on and offline. The film has been broadcast in 40 countries including on PBS, Netflix and CBC in North America. Cyber-Seniors screening events were supported by over 900 partners including AARP Foundation, Best Buy Foundation, BlueCross BlueShield Mn, and hundreds of schools, universities, and libraries. 

In her new film “Designer Sh*t”, Saffron explores the efficacy of fecal transplant for her condition ulcerative colitis, using herself as a human guinea pig.  

Episode mentions and links:

Designer Sh*t

Cyber Seniors

https://www.saffroncassaday.com/

Restaurant Saffron would take you to: Bud Namu Korean BBQ

Follow Saffron: Instagram | IMDb

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/111

As a founder and lead strategist at Common Thread, Sherine Guirguis turns data into powerful narratives. She brings over two decades of experience leading large-scale behaviour change strategies to tackle public health crises. She’s helped rid the world of polio, mitigate COVID-19, end West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, and respond to the Indian Ocean Tsunami. She spent 15 years working senior behaviour change positions at UNICEF and is widely published in public health and social and behaviour change. Sherine holds a MS in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a MA in International Development and Economics from Johns Hopkins University. She’s a guest lecturer at NYU’s School of Global Public Health and participates in numerous Technical Advisory Groups, including the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, PATH and the Taskforce for Global Health. Sherine lives in Barbados and loves riding horses, diving, and design in all its forms.

As a founder and lead storyteller at Common Thread, Michael Coleman ensures that people weigh in on decisions that impact and depict their lives. Through senior communications posts with UN agencies in Angola, Pakistan, and Viet Nam, and experience in social development, documentary production and international journalism, Mike has gained invaluable experience crafting people-centred narratives. Through his work in polio eradication and responding to violence against health workers in Pakistan, he learned the importance of human-centred design. Mike holds a MA in Political Communications from Goldsmiths at the University of London. He is part of a USAID and Gates initiated Community of Practice called Design for Health. He has lectured at NYU’s School of Global Public Health and served as a lead trainer for the US Center for Disease Control’s STOP Polio Programme. Mike is based in Ireland, where he spends his days biking, camping, and coaching his girls’ soccer team.

Episode mentions and links:

Poland: Not settling for less than home

Zambia and Kenya: Sprinting towards a stronger workforce

Global: Tracking vaccination the fun way

Restaurants Sherine and Mike would take you to: 

Local and Co. Barbados 

Birchalls Pub Dublin

Glas Restaurant Dublin

Follow Common Thread: Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

Follow Sherine: Twitter | LinkedIn

Follow Mike: LinkedIn

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/110

Dr. Kimberly Sue is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with the Program in Addiction Medicine (Division of General Internal Medicine) at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the former Medical Director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY, which strives to improve the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs. Currently, she serves as an Attending Physician at the Central Medical Unit, APT Foundation, which provides primary care to patients receiving methadone and other substance use treatment services and supervises fellows and trainees within the Yale Addiction Medicine Fellowship program. She also is an Attending Physician on the hospital-based Yale Addiction Medicine Consult Service. She holds board certification in both Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Sue trained at Harvard's MD-PhD Social Science Program, and has a PhD in sociocultural anthropology. Her book, Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis (2019), is based on her research on women with opioid use disorder in Massachusetts prison and jails. Her current research interests include harm reduction, stigma, gender/women and substance use, and overdose response strategies on local, state, and federal levels.

Episode mentions and links:

https://www.drkimsue.com/

Yale Medicine

Harm Reduction Coalition

Kim's Book: Getting Wrecked Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis

NEXT Distro (mail based harm reduction service)

On Point NYC

Restaurant Kim would take you to: Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria Napoletana (or Sally’s or Modern or any one of the many highly revered New Haven Pizza joints)

Follow Kim: Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/109

Rick Griffith is a British-West-Indian collagist, writer, letterpress printer, designer, and optimist futurist based in Denver, Colorado. As a designer, he works at the intersection of programming, policy, and production. He is a columnist for PRINTmag.com, the two-time programming chair for the AIGA National Conference, and the 2023 Acuff Chair at Austin Peay State University. Rick’s works are collected and exhibited worldwide and can be found in the permanent collections of The Denver Art Museum, The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and The Tweed Museum at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He is a founder and partner with Debra Johnson of the graphic design consultancy MATTER, the designer behind the Black Astronaut Research Project (BLARP.org), The Pledge for Spaces, and the Introductory Ethic for Designers and Other Thinking Persons. One of his favorite long-term design projects is a bookstore for designers and revolutionaries. He DJs a live Internet radio show, Design To Kill, every Tuesday 6 pm Eastern Time.

Episode mentions and links:

MATTER Studio

Shop at MATTER: For designers and other thinking persons

Rick Griffith: A Love Letter to Design, a List of Demands, and a Stern Look via Print Magazine

Rick’s Book Recommendations:

The Black Experience in Design

You Need a Manifesto

Buy Health Design Thinking via Shop at MATTER 

• 50% OFF until 3/31/23 if you use discount code: designlab

The Restaurant Rick would take you to in NYC:

B&H Dairy Kosher Restaurant

Follow Rick: Twitter | Insta | LinkedIn

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/108

Dr. Helen Ouyang is an emergency physician, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Columbia University, and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has written for The Atlantic, Harper’s, Los Angeles Times, New York, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. Her writing has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and funded by The Pulitzer Center. Helen has worked in 20 countries across five continents in public health and humanitarian assistance. Her publications have also appeared in many academic medical journals, including The Lancet and JAMA, and she currently serves as a reviewer for Annals of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. She is also a mentor-editor for The OpEd Project. Until 2015, Helen was the Associate Director of Columbia’s International Emergency Medicine Fellowship. After graduating with a bachelor of arts from Brown University, Helen went to medical school at Johns Hopkins and studied for a master’s in public health at Harvard, where she was also a Zuckerman Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Public Leadership. Upon completing her training at Harvard, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, she moved out to the Pacific Northwest before finding her way back to the East Coast.

Episode mentions and links:

https://helenouyang.com

Your Next Hospital Bed Might Be At Home via NY Times Magazine

Can Virtual Reality Help Ease Chronic Pain via NY Times Magazine

Restaurant Helen would take you to: Bernie’s Restaurant

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Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/107

Joanne Cheung is an artist and designer. She formerly served as a Director of Systems Change at the global design firm IDEO. In her ongoing effort to amplify the public impact of research and policy through design, she spearheaded creative collaborations with institutions including the Icelandic Glaciological Society, Harvard Earth and Planetary Sciences Visualization Lab, Harvard Office of Sustainability, Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and Dartmouth Life Sciences Center. She has been a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the American Association of University Women, an Artist-in-Residence at the Icelandic Association of Visual Artists, and a speaker at Duke Center on Law & Technology and the National Academy of Sciences, and her work has been featured in Wallpaper, Wired, Azure Magazine, Fast Company, and the New York Times. She lectures at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Episode mentions and links:

https://joannekcheung.com

https://medium.com/@jcheung

IDEO: First Mile Health via Building H

Upstreaming Health, a d.school class by Joanne Cheung, Stephen Downs, and Sara Singer

Joanne would take you to a Thai Temple Backyard Brunch at: Wat Mongkolratanaram

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Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/106

Vidya Viswanathan is a writer and primary care pediatrician in Philadelphia. She founded Doctors Who Create, a community focused on medicine and creativity, and led the Creativity in Medicine conference in Philadelphia in 2019. She has published longform journalism and narrative nonfiction in outlets including The Atlantic, Vox, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and JAMA. Vidya trained at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for pediatrics residency. She attended undergrad at Harvard College where she majored in Social Studies and studied Mandarin Chinese, and spent the year afterward on a Fulbright scholarship teaching English in Taiwan. She did her post-bac studies after her return, and moved to Philadelphia for medical school–and hasn’t left since. Currently, Vidya is dabbling in fiction writing and working on a novel about women of color in medical training. She lives in Philly with her husband and their twin toddlers, and reads several (children’s) books a day.

Episode mentions and links:

https://vidyaviswanathan.com/

Sara Nović - Author and Educator

“The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel - New Yorker

Blue Stoop

Suzanne Koven - Letters to a Young Female Physician

Restaurant Vidya would take you to: L’anima

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Dr. Norma Padrón is a Latina and first-gen economist with a doctorate in health economics who founded EmpiricaLab—a company specializing in peer–to–peer training within healthcare organizations to accelerate their digital transformation. 

She earned a Ph.D. in health policy and management from Yale University; a master's degree in economics from Duke University, as well as another master's degree— in public health-from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain; She has a bachelor's degree in economics with a math minor, from the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.

She has held leadership roles across the healthcare industry, including in academia, nonprofit and private sector. Her teams have leveraged data analytics and technology to improve digital health products for patients and providers, design value-based care models, and quality and performance measurement and training.

In addition to her work in health economics and analytics, Norma has held board positions in STEM education and technology, including as Chair of the industry advisory board for an NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center focused on improving healthcare through organizational transformation.

Her company, EmpiricaLab, is in Beta and has received funding from programs like the AWS Impact Accelerator for Women Founders and the Techstars Workforce Development Program.

Episode Links and Mentions:

EmpiricaLab

US Census Bureau: Who Are Our Health Care Workers?

Norma’s fav restaurants:

Launderette Austin

Bar Ciccio Alimentari - NYC

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Chethan Sarabu, MD trained in landscape architecture, pediatrics, and clinical informatics builds anastomoses across these fields to design healthier environments and systems. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford Medicine, Director of Clinical Informatics at Sharecare. Across these roles, he works on designing and implementing a wide array of innovations ranging from patient portals, EHR transformation, virtual clinical trials, and A.I. driven digital biomarkers, to health information policy initiatives all through a lens of health equity and patient privacy. Drawing on his background in landscape architecture, Chethan implements and researches nature based health solutions such as the health benefits of urban green and blue spaces and Park prescriptions with the Stanford OurVoice and Natural Capital teams. Finally, he is shaping the emergent field of climate health informatics, which brings together emergency preparedness, sustainability, and environmental health, with a technology framework for climate health adaptation and mitigation. 

Episode mentions and links:

Olmsted.health

Lancet Countdown

Chethan’s restaurant suggestion: https://omsabor.com/

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Dr. Upali Nanda is Global Practice Director for Research at HKS, a 1500 person international architecture firm. She also teaches as Associate Professor of Practice at the Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Michigan and serves as the Executive Director for the non-profit Center for Advanced Design Research and Education (CADRE). She is the author of the book “Sensthetics: a crossmodal approach to designing for the senses”. Her widely published research on health and wellbeing, neuroscience and architecture, and outcome-driven design has won numerous awards. In 2015, Dr. Nanda was recognized as one of the top 10 most influential people in Healthcare Design by the Healthcare Design Magazine. In 2018, she was honored by Architectural Record with the Women in Architecture Innovator Award and in 2020 she was featured in the book on 100 women who changed architecture. Her design research is anchored on the art, and the science, of being human. 

Episode mentions and links:

HKS Research

CADRE Research

UM Health BY Design course

Upali on Point of Decision Design

Article: Design Diagnostics

Outcomes examples:

CADRE Living Learning Lab

HKS Generations of Care Tower

Upali’s restaurant suggestion: Roti Wraps at Jiti’s

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Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/102

Susan Swick, MD, MPH is the Executive Director of Ohana, designing and leading the development of this Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey, California. In addition to evaluation and treatment programs that are evidence-based and family-focused. Ohana programs will also emphasize the cultivation of mental health at the individual, family and community level. This Center is being created with the support of a landmark $100 million gift from a single donor in the hospital’s community, reflecting a recognition on both the hospital’s and the community’s part that the resources available to families seeking care for their children’s mental health challenges were sorely lacking. Dr. Swick has a long-standing interest in how adversity affects children and families, and in how well-timed interventions can make a critical difference. Prior to relocating to California in 2018, Dr. Swick served as the Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Newton Wellesley Hospital for five years. While at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, she created a new community health initiative called “The Resilience Project,” partnering with local High Schools to promote the mental health and well-being of youth and their families. She also directed the Parenting At a Challenging Time (PACT) program at Newton-Wellesley, a parent guidance program available to cancer patients who were still raising young children. She was an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she created and ran a course on Parent Guidance for the Child Psychiatry fellows. She attended Medical School at Columbia University, where she also received a Masters in Public Health. She, her husband and their four children are all east-coasters originally, but are happy to call California home.

Episode Mentions and Links

AIA 2022 Healthcare Design Awards: Montage Health Ohana Center

NBBJ Architects: Ohana Center for Health

NBBJ Architects: Hope, Healing, and Healthcare 

A New Tool in Treating Mental Illness: Building Design via NYT 

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Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/101

Guests featured in this episode:

EP 1: Ellen Lupton, Sharing the Power of Design

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EP 2: Nzinga Harrison, Designing for Mental Health

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EP 3: Mike Natter, Art, Storytelling, and Medicine

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EP 7: John Maeda, Technology and Design

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EP 8: Giorgia Lupi, Designing with Data

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EP 9: Craig Wilkins, Spacial Justice

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EP 10: BJ Miller, Designing Death

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EP 18: Cliff Kuang, Designing a User Friendly World

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EP 59: Susannah Fox, Designing Peer-to-Peer Health

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Episode Links and Mentions:

Thad Ziolkowski’s on Surfing and Addiction 

Rob’s blood glucose nightlight: https://glowcose.com/

Podcast statistics referenced from Daniel Ruby via Demand Sage: https://www.demandsage.com/podcast-statistics

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Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam are Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Noora Health, an international non-profit that improves health outcomes and strengthens health systems by equipping patients and their loved ones with essential caregiving skills. Working across 300+ health facilities in India and Bangladesh, Noora Health turns hospital hallways and waiting rooms into classrooms to deliver fit-for-purpose, high-quality training for post-surgical, post-delivery, and general care, then follows up with families at home using mobile messaging technologies. To date, Noora Health's programs have reached nearly 2 million patients and caregivers. Noora Health was named a 2022 TED Audacious Project grantee and recipient of the 2022 Skoll Award for Social Innovation.

Episode Links and Mentions:

https://www.noorahealth.org/

Design For Extreme Affordability

Audacious Project

Audacious Project 2021-22 Cohort

2022 Skoll Award For Social Innovation

TED2022 Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam

The food Edith and Shahed would treat you to if you visited them in India is first a Pani Puri Happy Hour at the Noora Office followed by Dosas at Jayadeva Institute!

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Michael Wang graduated from Emory University and Columbia University and is the founder of Inspiren, a clinician-led technology company that uses AI and computer vision to augment and improve clinical outcomes. He is a licensed advanced practice clinician specializing in Cardiothoracic Surgery and Acute Care. Prior to his entrepreneurial and medical career, he served as a Green Beret in the United States Army Special Forces.  

Episode Links and Mentions:

Mike’s Link List: 

Inspiren

The restaurant Mike would take you to:

Mógū: Modern Chinese Kitchen

Keep an eye out for Mike's forthcoming book, Unbeaten!

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Dr. Melissa Lem is a Vancouver family physician who also works in rural and northern communities within Canada. Director of PaRx, Canada’s national nature prescription program powered by the BC Parks Foundation, and President-Elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, she is an internationally recognized leader in the field of nature and health. As a widely published writer, climate change panelist on CBC Radio's Early Edition, in-house medical columnist for CBC TV Vancouver, and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, one of her major priorities is knowledge translation.

Dr. Lem was the inaugural winner of University College’s Young Alumni of Influence Award at the University of Toronto, a 2021 World Parks Week Ambassador, and sits on the Advisory Committee of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Health and Well-being Specialist Group.

Episode Links and Mentions:

Melissa’s Link List: https://lnk.bio/s5o7

A Prescription for Nature: PaRx

Books recommended by Melissa:

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv

Robert’s Rules of Order

The restaurant Melissa would take you to:

The Boathouse Restaurant

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Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People 2017 and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations. She is the author of Design the Life You Love and gives lectures on Design the Work You Love to corporations. Ayse is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, the award-winning design and innovation studio, and consults to Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, Herman Miller, GE, IKEA, The Scan Foundation, Staples and Toyota, among others. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Episode Links and Mentions:

https://www.aysebirsel.com/

http://ayse-birsel.squarespace.com/

Birsel + Seck

Ayse’s new book: Design the Long Life You Love

Ayse’e first book: Design the Life You Love

Books recommended by Ayse:

The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

The Earned Life by Marshall Goldsmith

The Long Game by Dorie Clark

To be Honest by Ron A. Carucci

How to Begin by Michael Bungay Stanier

The restaurant Ayse would take you to:

Tonchin

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What are the benefits of green spaces and who has access to them?

What’s the story behind Billie Holiday’s song Strange Fruit? 

Jennifer D. Roberts is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health at the University of Maryland College Park (UMD). Dr. Roberts is also the Founder and Director of the Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment (PHOEBE) Laboratory as well as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of NatureRx@UMD, an initiative that emphasizes the natural environmental benefits interspersed throughout and around the UMD campus. Her scholarship focuses on the impact of built, social, and natural environments, including the institutional and structural inequities of these environments, on the public health outcomes of marginalized communities. More specifically, much of her research has explored the dynamic relationship between environmental, social, and cultural determinants of physical activity and using empirical evidence of this relationship to infer complex health outcome patterns and disparities as well as instigate a powerful shift that recognizes, breaks, and transforms these conditions and determinants of health.

Episode Links and Mentions:

https://jenniferdeniseroberts.com/

Article: Mental health initiative connects UMD students with the outdoors

Article: Advancing Health and Sustainability in Baltimore

Video: Designing on the Front Lines: Safer Spaces

Book Rec: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solution for the Climate Crisis

Restaurant Rec: Seoul Food

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What role did deadly design play in Hurricane Katrina?

How does the concept of triage during a crisis reflect our values?

Sheri Fink is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated television producer and the author of the New York Times bestselling nonfiction book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital about choices made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She is a producer of the Five Days at Memorial limited series on Apple TV+. 

Fink’s work has often explored the impact of crises on health care and is informed by her background as an MD and former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones (she also holds a PhD in neuroscience).

Five Days at Memorial, the recipient of eight book awards, was based on an article investigating patient deaths at Memorial Medical Center. Co-published by ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine, the article won both a Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award.

As a news reporter, Fink extensively covered the Covid pandemic and, earlier, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, sharing Pulitzer Prizes in 2021 and 2015 with New York Times colleagues. Fink’s investigation into how the Ebola epidemic began in Sierra Leone and why it wasn’t stopped in time for the PBS Frontline episode Outbreak received an Emmy nomination for outstanding research in 2016.

Fink often lectures on topics ranging from emergency preparedness to journalism and is an adjunct associate professor at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She is at work on a book about the global Covid pandemic.

Episode Links and Mentions:

http://www.sherifink.net/

Article on the book via NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/books/five-days-at-memorial-by-sheri-fink.html

Article about the new show via Entertainment Weekly: https://ew.com/tv/tv-reviews/five-days-at-memorial-review-apple-tv-plus/

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Can ordinary people do extraordinary things?

What is true power?

Platon is one of the world's most renowned portrait photographers, having photographed more world leaders than anyone else in history, including six American presidents. He has photographed over 30 covers for TIME Magazine, including their 2008 Vladimir Putin Person of The Year cover, which was awarded 1st prize at the World Press Photo Contest. In 2008, Platon signed on as staff photographer to the New Yorker, winning a Peabody Award and two National Magazine Awards for his photo essays. He has published four books with subjects ranging from the power of world leaders to the dignity of those who serve in the US Military. In 2013, Platon founded The People’s Portfolio, a non-profit foundation dedicated to celebrating emerging leaders of human rights and civil rights around the world. The People’s Portfolio creates a visual language that breaks barriers, uplifts dignity, fights discrimination, and enlists the public to support human rights around the world. Platon is currently on the board for Arts and Culture at the World Economic Forum. Platon’s life’s work is the subject of a Netflix documentary, Abstract: The Art of Design. His first film, My Body Is Not A Weapon, features survivors of wartime sexual violence and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege. In 2020, Platon’s archive of prominent African American civil rights leaders and cultural leaders was acquired by the Smithsonian.

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https://www.mukwegefoundation.org

Original portrait of Platon by Michele Murray

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How does the Covid-19 pandemic parallel the HIV pandemic?

What lessons can we learn from the current global pandemic response?

David France is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, New York Times bestselling author, and award-winning investigative journalist. His directorial debut, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, received Academy and Emmy nominations and a Peabody Award. His 2017 film, THE DEATH & LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON, was awarded the Outfest “Freedom Award”. David premiered his third documentary, WELCOME TO CHECHNYA, at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the special jury award for documentary editing. It received numerous awards, including BAFTA and Peabody. David's latest film, HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC, premiered at the 2022 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

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Episode Links and Mentions:

David’s website: https://www.davidfrance.com/

Select Reviews of David's Films:

Review: Journal of a plague year via Boston Globe

Review: ‘This massive undertaking was invisible’: film glimpses behind the curtain as Covid vaccine was made via The Guardian

Review: ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Review: A Vital Indictment of Mass Persecution via NYT

Review: ‘The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson’ Review: A Stonewall Hero Is Mourned In Fascinating Detective Story — Tribeca 2017 Review via Indie Wire

Review: A Story of AIDS, From the Beginning via NYT

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Prior to Walmart, Valerie was Chief Product Officer at Samsung NEXT, and an executive leader at world-renowned design studios IDEO, frog design and Pentagram. She is the founder of the Designers Accord, the largest global community of designers working together to create positive social and environmental impact. Valerie was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. She has served on several boards, including the Ford CX Board, WEF Entrepreneurship Council, and the Kleiner Perkins Design Council. Casey was named: 100 Most Creative People in Business, Fast Company; Guru of the Year, Fortune magazine; Hero of the Environment, Time magazine; Master of Design, Fast Company; one of the World's Most Influential Designers, Businessweek. She holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MED from Yale.

Episode Mentions:

http://valcasey.com/

Website: Designers Accord

Website: Core77: Adopt the Designers Accord

Article: Walmart Made An Incredibly Sharp Move This Month Hiring Valerie Casey

Video: Brainstorm Design 2022 - Designing A Regenerative Company

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Dr. Lekshmi Santhosh specializes in adult pulmonary and critical care medicine with a focus on medical education. She attends in the Medical ICU, the Neuro ICU, on the Internal Medicine teaching wards, and has a clinic at the Pulmonary Outpatient Faculty Practice at UCSF-Parnassus. She is the founder and Medical Director of the multidisciplinary OPTIMAL Clinic (pOst-covid-19/PosT-Icu MultidisciplinAry cLinic) at UCSF Health.

She serves as the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and the Assistant Site Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at Parnassus. She also is the Director of the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds. She obtained her Master's in Health Professions Education from UC-Berkeley. Her primary interests in medical education research are related to ICU transitions of care, women in leadership, clinical reasoning, and subspecialty career choice.

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Interview w Lekshmi: What We Do — and, Frustratingly, Don’t — Know About Long Covid

Article: Long Covid-19 may remain a chronic condition for millions

Article: On the Long Road to Understanding Long Covid, This UCSF Initiative Leads

Article: Feeling Dismissed? How to Spot ‘Medical Gaslighting’ and What to Do About It.

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How does misinformation spread like a virus?

Why do our brains cling to biases?

Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer prize finalist, medical doctor and Stanford and UCLA professor as well as a CEO coach working with Corporate Edge. Dr. Yasmin served as a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC, as a science reporter for The Dallas Morning News and medical analyst for CNN. The author of five books, her reporting appears in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, WIRED, Scientific American, and on the BBC, NBC and other news networks. Dr. Yasmin’s unique combination of expertise as a dually-trained physician and medical journalist have been called upon by the Vatican, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and the White House. Yasmin is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University, and visiting professor of crisis communication at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. She trained in journalism at the University of Toronto and in medicine at the University of Cambridge. Her newest book, What the Fact?! is a navigation guide for teens (and adults!) on how to survive the murky worlds of misinformation and disinformation and become savvy consumers of information.

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Seema’s Website: https://seemayasmin.com/

Website: Stanford Health Communication Initiative

Seema’s New Book: What the Fact!? (Book drops on Sept 20th, 2022)

Article: Must-read books coming out in Sept 2022

Article: Doctors are spreading COVID disinformation. California needs to do something about it

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Julianne Holt-Lunstad is a professor of psychology and neuroscience, and the Martin B. Hickman distinguished scholar at Brigham Young University. She is also the founding scientific chair of the U.S. Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness and Foundation for Social Connections.

Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s research is focused on understanding the long-term health effects, biological mechanisms, and effective strategies to mitigate risk and promote protection associated with social connection.  Her work has been seminal in the recognition of social isolation and loneliness as risk factors for early mortality. She serves as a scientific advisor and regularly consults for organizations across sectors aimed at addressing this issue. She has provided expert testimony in a US Congressional Hearing, consults with the office of the US Surgeon General, served as a member of the UK Cross Departmental Loneliness Team, a member of a National Academy of Sciences consensus committee, and a subject matter expert for the Gravity Project and Commit to Connect the national clearinghouse of interventions. Her work has been widely recognized within her discipline, including several awards, and is regularly highlighted in major media outlets. 

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Julianne’s Website: https://www.julianneholtlunstad.com

Julianne’s Academic Site: https://julianneholtlunstad.byu.edu

Coalition to End Social Isolation and Lonliness

Foundation for Social Connection

Gravity Project

Article: Reducing Social Isolation Isn’t Rocket Science, or Is It? - Psychology Today

Article: Social isolation and loneliness increase the risk of death from heart attack, stroke - Science Daily

Article: Loneliness among older people: A research roundup and 5 tips for covering the topic - The Journalist’s Resource

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Timothy Caulfield is a Best selling author and Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. His interdisciplinary research on topics like stem cells, genetics, research ethics, the public representations of science and public health policy has allowed him to publish over 350 academic articles. He has won numerous academic and writing awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He contributes frequently to the popular press and is the author of two national bestsellers: The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and Happiness (Penguin 2012) The Science of Celebrity…or Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? (Penguin 2015). His most recent book is Relax, Dammit!: A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety (Penguin Random House, 2020). Caulfield is also the host and co-producer of the award winning documentary TV show, A User's Guide to Cheating Death, which has been shown in over 60 countries, including streaming on Netflix in North America.

Episode Mentions:

Show: A Users Guide to Cheating Death (via IMDB)

Website: University of Alberta

Books Website: Penguin Random House Canada

Publications via Google Scholar 

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Laura Mauldin is a writer, sociologist, and interdisciplinary scholar based in Brooklyn, NY. She's currently an associate professor at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses broadly on disability, care, and technology. Her first book, Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children, documented the structure and culture of the systems we’ve designed to try to make deaf kids hear. Currently, she is writing a nonfiction book on spousal caregiving that weaves together research, memoir, and cultural commentary. She’s recently published articles in The American Prospect, Baffler Magazine, and the Los Angeles Review of books connected to spousal caregiving. Most recently, she launched the new website DisabilityAtHome.org which documents the daily hacks that disabled people and caregivers have devised to make life work at home. 

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Book: Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children by Laura Mauldin

Website: disabilityathome.org

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Article: Finding Comfort at Home: New Website Logs Solutions to Everyday Problems for Disabled People and Their Caregivers

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Perry Zurn is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University and the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry. 

Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014. 

They're the authors of the forthcoming book Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (MIT Press, September 2022).

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Jay Baruch is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he directs the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Scholarly Concentration. He's a practicing ER doc, writer and educator. His upcoming book of non-fiction, narrative essays is: Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER (MIT Press, fall 2022) He is also the author of two award-winning short fiction collections, "What's Left Out" and and "Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers" (Kent State University Press, 2007).

His academic work emerged as a response to the realization that medical training didn't prepare him for the complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity that pervades patient care. His teaching involves interdisciplinary collaborations and pushing boundaries with people who hold different expertise and ways of looking at the world. His innovative collaborators have included brilliant museum educators, designers, and artists.

Past honors include Director-at-Large, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, the medical humanities section chair for the American College of Emergency Physicians, and faculty fellow at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. He received the inaugural Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Gold Humanism Award and the Brown Emergency Medicine, Innovations in Education Award.

His current work focuses on arts and health and designing authentic spaces for fostering difficult conversations.

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Jay Baruch, MD. Doctoring and writing, creatively

Book: Tornado of Life. A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER

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Nina Bianchi is a Solutions Principal at Medallia with the regulated industry practice (government, healthcare, and life sciences). Prior to joining Medallia, she served as Chief of People and Culture at the U. S. Food and Drug Administration in partnership with the U. S. General Services Administration IT Modernization Centers of Excellence. As a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow with the Biden Cancer Moonshot 1.0 at the National Cancer Institute, she coached diverse stakeholders in leading culture transformation and designing healthier work experiences to drive personalized patient experiences. Much of the work of building positive employee experiences, frontlines to C-suites, rests on creative leaders who reimagine how we measure and improve experiences over time. Before joining the federal government, Nina co-founded and ran a social innovation consulting enterprise that fostered a vast portfolio of high-impact public-private partnerships for over a decade. Her teams designed experiential solutions for local, national, and international clients including City governments across the globe, philanthropic organizations, non-profits, Fortune 500, and leading institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Amy Abernethy | FDA

Healthcare Customer Experience | Medallia

New podcast: Solving For X - ATARC

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Sarah Stein Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Stanford d.school. She leads a community of designers, faculty, and other innovative thinkers who help people unlock their creative abilities and apply them to the world. Sarah speaks regularly at universities and global conferences on design, business, and education. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in history from Oberlin College. Sarah also serves as a trustee for Rare, a global conservation organization. Among other creative pursuits, she spends her free time as an underwater and wildlife photographer. She lives in San Francisco.

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Books from the d.school

Book: Creative Acts for Curious People by Sarah Stein Greenberg

Book: Make Space (awesome book about designing creative spaces)

Article: Recipe for a Tasty d.school

Resource: Teaching and Learning Studio faculty workshops

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I worry that burnout can’t be reversed and has fundamentally changed me as a doctor and a person

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Via Collective

The Importance of Universal Design

Book: Image of the City by Kevin Lynch

Sylvia Harris

Wayfinding in the Tokyo Subway System

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Haider Warraich is a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has published more than 135 papers including in the NEJM and JAMA. He frequently writes for the New York Times and Washington Post, and is the author of the books Modern Death, State of the Heart and the just published The Song of Our Scars – The Untold Story of Pain (April 2022).

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As a hospitalist and Associate CMIO at Penn Medicine, Dr. Subha Airan-Javia recognized the daily challenges clinicians faced due to inefficient workflows and poorly designed technology. Knowing there was a better way she decided to pursue a career in clinical informatics instead of cardiology and critical care medicine. Subha also has a passion for how to improve communication between teams in medicine. She developed Penn Medicine’s handoff training curriculum for students and trainees, as well as developed a curriculum to teach medical students how to incorporate technology into clinical care in a way that improves patient encounters instead of detracting from them. Over the next 15 years as faculty at Penn Medicine, Subha worked to bridge the gap between front line clinicians and the development of health technology. In that work, she and her team created CareAlign, a care team collaboration platform to help teams of clinicians work together to take better, more efficient care of patients. Seeing how CareAlign revolutionized clinical workflows at Penn, Subha knew the platform could bring the same value to other institutions – which is how CareAlign the company, came to be. She spun the platform out of Penn Medicine, and now works to bring care team collaboration to other health systems and care settings. With a driving mission of making it easier for clinicians to do the right thing for patients, Subha believes technology should facilitate healthcare delivery instead of making it harder. 

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Alessandra Colaianni is a writer and head and neck surgeon who specializes in the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer. She writes creative nonfiction essays about the world of surgical training, medical ethics, medical education, and illness. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker online, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Examined Life Journal, Intima, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Hobart, and other venues.

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Nancy Rawson is Vice President of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, and holds a master’s degree in nutrition from the University of Massachusetts and a doctorate in biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her career spans academia and industry, including a faculty position at the Monell Center studying how age and health impacts taste and smell, and various roles in the food and ingredient industries where she built research teams from the ground up and received awards for new product innovation. Since 2016, she has been at Monell, working to catalyze and manage Monell’s relationships with nearly 40 corporate partners and lead strategic and operational planning activities to support the Center’s growth and success. She continues to advance research into taste and smell disorders, is a founding advisor for the Smell and Taste Association of North America and is committed to increasing awareness of the importance of taste and smell for our health and wellbeing. 

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Abscent.org Smell training and other Anosmia (loss of smell) resources

Monell COVID-19 Resources

World taste and smell day is Sept 14th!

SCENTinel 1.0: Development of a Rapid Test to Screen for Smell Loss

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Tracy Johnson is a Design Anthropologist at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she ​

leads a portfolio of interdisciplinary investments, integrating human-centered design with the social and behavioral sciences and data analytics to bring about a deeper understanding of vulnerability as a pathway to the delivery of more equitable health outcomes. She leads the DesignforHealth.org community and was the guest editor of the Global Health: Science & Practice special supplement entitled Design for Health: Human Centered Design Looks to the Future. She received her PhD in social and cultural anthropology from Columbia University.

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Video: Blinded by Empathy

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Phnam is a partner at Nonfiction, a San Francisco-based design firm that turns science fiction into reality for a better future. She is a French industrial designer, futurist and aerospace architect. Her focus is on designing and developing cutting-edge hardware in Wearables, Healthcare, Education, Renewable Energy, Robotics, Transportation, and Aerospace. She specializes in turning groundbreaking technologies into impactful, intuitive, and beautiful products that help humans become the best versions of themselves. With her partner Mardis, Phnam co-hosts Future Future, a video series about design and the future of everything.

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Prior to ICON, Melodie was a Senior Associate Researcher in human factors with San Jose State University Research Foundation at NASA Ames, a co-founder of Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+), a group developing human-supporting concepts for space exploration, as well as a professor of design at Pratt Institute and Art Center College of Design. As a co-founder of SEArch+, Melodie collaborated with ICON on design schematics for a permanent Lunar base for Project Olympus. Melodie has worked as a design architect at Locatelli Partners, Pentagram, AvroKo, and Studio Geiger Architecture & Design. 

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Panelists include Jennifer D. Roberts, University of Maryland School of Public Health; Jennifer Tobias, Researcher, New York City Streateries; and Andrew M. Ibrahim, University of Michigan and HOK

The panel was moderated by Morgan Hutchinson and Ellen Lupton. Video archives of the series are also available at CooperHewitt.org.

Watch videos of previous episodes of DOTFL Season 1 and Season 2

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Thad Ziolkowski is a lifelong surfer, person in recovery, and the author, most recently, of The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery, which was published in 2021 by Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins. His memoir On a Wave (Grove/Atlantic) was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2003 and his novel, Wichita (Europa Editions) appeared in 2012 to critical acclaim. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, Artforum, Travel & Leisure, Interview Magazine and Index. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has a PhD in English Literature from Yale University.

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What are the differences between designing with data and physical materials?

Why does the government need more designers?

Sha Hwang is COO and co-founder at Nava, a public benefit corporation working to make government services simple, effective, and accessible. Founded as a part of efforts to help fix HealthCare.gov, Nava now works on projects across Medicare, Department of Veterans Affairs, and at the state level on large efforts to improve government digital services.

A failed architect and accidental entrepreneur, Sha has worked with clients such as the New York Times, the Harvard Library Lab, CNN, MTV, Flickr, and Adobe. Prior to Nava, Sha worked at Stamen Design and later co-founded the company Movity, which was acquired by Trulia. Sha has spoken frequently at events including the White House Datapalooza, Webstock, Eyeo Festival, and Visualized.

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How are vaccine and beer production similar?

Are D.I.Y. vaccine starters kits the best strategy to vaccinate the world?

Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi is an internationally recognized tropical and emerging disease vaccinologist, global health advocate and co-creator of a patent-free, open science COVID-19 vaccine technology that led to the development of Corbevax, a COVID-19 vaccine for the world. She pioneers and leads innovative partnerships for the advancement of a robust vaccine development portfolio tackling diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poorest populations, making significant contributions to catalyze policies and disseminate science information to reach a diverse set of audiences. In 2022, alongside vaccine researcher Peter Hotez, she was nominated by Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher of Texas for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Panelists include Monique Smith, MD, Emory University; Adam Wentworth, Teal Reusable Respirator; and Sabrina Paseman, Essential Mask Brace. 

The panel was moderated by Morgan Hutchinson and Ellen Lupton. Video archives of the series are also available at CooperHewitt.org.

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https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/12/10/personal-protective-equipment/

https://www.emoryhealthdesigned.com/

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https://www.fixthemask.com/

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Steve Downs is a co-founder at Building H, a project to build health into everyday life. Steve, his Building H co-founder Thomas Goetz, and other collaborators are growing a community of entrepreneurs, investors, designers, engineers and researchers who believe that we need to re-imagine everyday life—how we eat, sleep, get from place to place, socialize and entertain ourselves—to be healthy by design. In addition to community building, Building H and their collaborators are developing tools to help companies understand the impacts of their products and services on the health and well-being of their users. Steve is a lecturer at the d.school at Stanford University and an adjunct faculty member at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Prior to his role at Building H, he was the chief technology and strategy officer at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) where he focused on the practice of program strategy and on the alignment of the Foundation’s technology strategy and operations with its organizational directions. Recognizing that RWJF’s pursuit of its ambitious Culture of Health vision required an approach to strategy that is highly flexible and adaptive, he led a transformation of the Foundation’s approach to program strategy. Born in New Hampshire, Steve earned an SM in technology and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS in physics and applied physics from Yale University.

Thomas Goetz is a journalist, author and entrepreneur. He uses data, design, and stories to help people understand and navigate complicated issues in their lives. Thomas is the co-founder of Iodine, an award-winning website that helps people make sense of their health and medicines. In 2016, Iodine was acquired by GoodRx, America’s leading source for prescription drug savings, where he presently serves as chief of research. Thomas was previously the executive editor at WIRED, which he led to a dozen National Magazine Awards in as many years, and where he wrote dozens of cover stories on technology, science, and medicine. He began his career as a reporter at the Village Voice and the Wall Street Journal, and has written for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Bon Appetite. His writing has been repeatedly selected for the Best American Science Writing and Best Technology Writing anthologies. He served as the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he founded Flip the Clinic, an RWJ Signature Program working to transform the practitioner-patient encounter. His 2010 TED talk on visualizing medical data has been viewed more than half a million times. He holds an MPH from UC Berkeley and a MA in literature from UVA.

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Kevin Bethune is the Founder & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life, a "think tank" that delivers design & innovation services using a human-centered approach. Kevin's background spans engineering, business and design in equal proportion over his 20+ year career, positioning him to help brands deliver meaningful innovations to enrich people's lives. His work represents creative problem-solving that brings multidisciplinary teams together to see the future through an open aperture, and a deep industrial design approach to inform and influence desirable, feasible and business-viable design outcomes. Kevin began his career as a mechanical engineer in the nuclear power industry. This chapter gave him deep product experience working with high-performing teams across 14 nuclear reactor upgrade campaigns. After his MBA, Kevin joined Nike, Inc. in a business capacity, but quickly navigated to the Global Footwear product engine to drive advanced digital product creation capabilities, discovering the world of design in the process. After solidifying his creative foundation through further studies at ArtCenter College of Design, Kevin co-founded distinct design & innovation capabilities at two Tier 1 management consulting firms in Booz & Co. and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). As Vice President of Strategic Design at BCG Digital Ventures, he led a large cohort of designers that would influence and shape every corporate venture spun out from the incubator. Kevin left BCG Digital Ventures to carve his own path under the banner of dreams • design + life, focusing on unlocking human potential through strategic design, industrial design and the building of new ecologies. Kevin also serves as a Board Trustee for ArtCenter College of Design and the Board Chair for the Design Management Institute. Kevin’s book, Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation was published in March 2022.

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Dubbed “The Marie Kondo of Brains” by The New York Times, Catherine Price is an award-winning science journalist and speaker and the author of books including The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, and How to Break Up with Your Phone. She is also the creator and founder of ScreenLifeBalance.com, which is dedicated to helping people learn how to scroll less and live more. Her work has appeared in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Slate, Men's Journal, Self, and Outside, among others. Bon and Catherine talk about fun magnets, minimizing flow disruptors and microdosing fun into our daily lives. 

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Michelle Millar Fisher has worked as an educator, curator, and historian in universities and museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and the MFA Boston where she is currently the Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts. Her work focuses on the intersections of people, power, design, and craft. She has co-authored many books, essays, and exhibitions including Design and Violence and Items: Is Fashion Modern? 

Amber Winick is a mother and design historian. She holds an MA in Design History, Decorative Arts, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center, and a BA in child development and anthropology from Sarah Lawrence College. She has received two Fulbrights, and has lived and researched maternal and child-related designs, policies, and practices around the world. She has expertise in the designed systems, environments, and objects that empower (and disempower) us, particularly around birth, family leave, caregiving, schools, and early childhood.

Zoë Greggs (she/they) is a Black, queer, femme, nonbinary Philadelphia-based artist and non-profit administrator. She holds a BFA from the University of the Arts with a concentration in printmaking and book arts. In 2020, they participated in ArtWell’s Equity fellowship program that champions the power of women and nonbinary people of color as change agents to tackle institutional race and gender bias in their organizations and beyond. Zoë is also the Curatorial Assistant for Designing Motherhood, where she brings her expertise of community engagement, project management, and art history. In addition, they co-leads the Designing Motherhood Storybanking Initiative, which utilizes the power of storytelling to advocate for a future where caregivers can birth with dignity, parent with autonomy, and raise babies who are healthy, growing, and thriving. Through their passion for Black feminism, critical race theory, and systems change, they strive to create processes and joyful relationships that uproot systemic harm and shift mainstream narratives about our shared history and trajectory.

Gabriella Nelson is a mother and city planner, possessing a strong interest at the confluence of urban development, public health, and critical pedagogy. She currently works as the Associate Director of Policy for Maternity Care Coalition, advocating for the best policies and practices regarding maternal-child health and early learning. She believes the city is for everyone, especially for those who want to stay after bearing decades of disinvestment and devastation. Gabriella has lectured widely on topics of maternal-child health, city planning and advocacy, including at TEDxPhiladelphia. Gabriella is interested in redesigning cities, systems and policies that oppress and work against the liberation of those historically left behind. She identifies as a problem-solver, an inquisitive thinker, and a creative person whose experiences and opinions are deeply rooted in her womanhood, motherhood, and Blackness.

Her first product Primo-Lacto: A closed system for colostrum collection, was acquired by Lansinoh in 2018. She is currently working on a product called "NOOMA" with colleagues from Stanford Medicine to help facilitate delayed cord clamping for the preterm infant population, and "Kangarobe," a patent-pending garment that makes skin-to-skin care in the neonatal ICU safer and easier. Her professional background is in consumer products, like kitchen housewares, architectural hardware and personal electronic response systems. Bon and Jules talk about creating safe spaces in hospitals for sharing needs, making labor and delivery safer and why healthcare is incredibly creative.

Michael is the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Institute of Technology, Baumer Visiting Professor at The Ohio State University's Knowlton School, and has lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Michigan, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation.

Under Michael’s guidance, MASS has been awarded globally and featured in over 900 publications. Most recently, MASS was selected as the 2022 AIA Architecture Firm of the Year, featured on CBS' 60 minutes and recognized as the winner of the AIA 2021 Collaborative Achievement Award, Wall Street Journal’s 2020 Architecture Innovator, the National Arts and Letters Award for 2017, and the 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award.

Check out Michael’s new book, “The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity” and visit the “Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics” exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC!

Bon and Michael geeked out about design and health for so long that we had to split the conversation into two episodes. They talk about the evolution of the modern hospital, creating buildings that breathe, bringing beauty into healthcare and so much more.

Michael is the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Institute of Technology, Baumer Visiting Professor at The Ohio State University's Knowlton School, and has lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Michigan, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation.

Under Michael’s guidance, MASS has been awarded globally and featured in over 900 publications. Most recently, MASS was selected as the 2022 AIA Architecture Firm of the Year, featured on CBS' 60 minutes and recognized as the winner of the AIA 2021 Collaborative Achievement Award, Wall Street Journal’s 2020 Architecture Innovator, the National Arts and Letters Award for 2017, and the 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award.

Check out Michael’s new book, “The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity” and visit the “Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics” exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC!

Bon and Michael geeked out about design and health for so long that we had to split the conversation into two episodes. They talk about the evolution of the modern hospital, creating buildings that breathe, bringing beauty into healthcare and so much more.

Aika Matemu is a Director at Dalberg Design in Nairobi, leading the design team in Africa. She brings over 15 years experience in user experience design, digital technologies, global public health and social entrepreneurism, with extensive experience in social impact and innovation. She has committed her career thus far to designing and building innovations that impact social change, movement and revolution. Her design career has been grounded in human-centered design methods with a focus on designing products and services that create channels for underserved populations to access quality health care. She's passionate about building design capacity on the African continent and elevating home grown designers to global design platforms. 

Pragya Mishra is Director at Dalberg Design based in Seattle. She applies her expertise in visual and strategy design on social innovation, financial inclusion and global health projects. She brings a human-centered approach to her work that facilitates in-depth understanding of distinct user behaviors, attitudes and preferences towards products, services, and systems leading to actionable insights. Her recent work includes the development of Design for health – a tailored set of design resources for global health practitioners. Prior to joining Dalberg Design, Pragya worked as an independent designer with NGOs and governmental organizations on a range of social innovation projects. Pragya has a Masters in Design in Social Innovation from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York and an undergraduate degree in Visual Communication Design from the National Institute of Design (NID) in India. 

Joy Kendi is a senior designer based in Dalberg Design's Nairobi studio. Her expertise is in product and service design, user experience and design research, with a focus on emerging markets. Prior to joining Dalberg Design, Joy led product design at a technology innovation hub in Kenya.

Mihret Tamrat is a designer with Dalberg Design’s Nairobi studio. Her design background includes works in education technology, game design, as well as gender and youth employment across the US, Asia, and East Africa. Prior to Dalberg Design, Mihret worked as a strategy consultant with Dalberg Advisors in Addis Ababa.

Dr. Liao is a leading national expert in health care payment and delivery policy, generating seminal work on value-based payment models, leading large grant-funded projects, and providing expertise to national and state policymakers through a number of capacities, including service on the US Department of Health and Human Services' Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, as well as multiple state advisory groups for Washington state.

He has published 200+ articles, including over 150 in peer-reviewed medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the British Medical Journal. His ideas and insights have also appeared in outlets such as the Washington Post, Forbes, the Boston Globe, NPR, the Seattle Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Bon and Josh talk about behavioral architecture, redesigning the healthcare payment system and the jump from Jacobean drama to Medicine.

Bon and David talk about redesigning the current approach to pharmaceutical treatment of diseases, crowdsourcing in healthcare and why patients can’t wait for miracles.

Bon and Penina discuss learning to design for the true needs of people, bringing design education to youth in Uganda and the value of design in healthcare.

Bon and Katherine talk about the role of architecture in improving public health, repurposed buses acting as mobile produce markets and redefining public spaces.

Today, Kathleen is leading the conversation to elevate design’s impact even further, championing it as the way to solve our world’s most urgent problems. A Harvard Visiting Professor of Design for Social Innovation, she is at the forefront of a movement to change the way healthcare understands and applies design, and is the author of Design for Health: The Beginning of a New Dialogue Between Design and Public Health.

Kathleen and I talk about designing for behavior, how research is creative and bringing joy into healthcare.

Victor M. Montori, MD is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic. An endocrinologist, health services researcher, and care activist, Victor is the author of more than 690 peer-reviewed publications and is among the most cited researchers in clinical medicine and in social science. He is a recognized expert in evidence-based medicine and shared decision making, and minimally disruptive medicine. He works in Rochester, Minnesota, at Mayo Clinic's KER Unit, to advance person-centered care for patients with diabetes and other chronic conditions. He is the author of the book Why We Revolt, and is leading a movement, a Patient Revolution, for careful and kind care for all.

Bon talks with Maggie and Victor about the language of care, industrialized health care and why they started The Patient Revolution.