Working to advance design in healthcare towards design as healthcare
SELECTED PROJECTS
CANCER CARE: THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE
Exploring graphic medicine in the form of a visual discussion guide, helping physicians empower their patients and reduce their anxiety, improving treatment adherence and subsequent outcomes
PREGNANCY: HIDDEN COSTS OF CARE
Surfacing barriers to adequate pre-natal care faced by low-income women in greater Chicago, to support patient-physician communication and better integrate hospital and community social services
HEART RATE MONITORING: NEW USE CASES
Expanding a startup’s vision, product form factor and market strategy for their novel continuous heart rate monitoring technology, moving beyond fitness into innovative clinical and para-clinical opportunities
DEMENTIA: DIAGNOSIS TO END-OF-LIFE
Mapping patient, caregiver and provider experiences and aspirations through progressive stages of dementia, to strengthen existing healthcare resources and identify potential new sources of support
OPIOIDS: HOW USE BECOMES OVERUSE
Investigating common practices in the healthcare system that create key moments of vulnerability for opioid addiction, to revitalize the role pharmacies could play in the wellbeing of the communities they serve
COVID TESTING: DATABASE REQUIREMENTS
Collaborating with leaders in government and the scientific community to determine use cases and needs for a COVID diagnostic testing data hub in the early months of the pandemic