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Noise in the Operating Room
A multi-institutional hospital study shows the critical impact of noise on distraction and communication in healthcare settings.
Edelstein E et al. European Healthcare Design Congress, 2023;
Crockett CJ et al. Anesthesiologists’ Perception of Noise in the Operating Room and Patient Safety: A QI Initiative from the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Quality & Safety Committee NOR Task Force,American College of Surgeons 2023;
Tjia IM et al. Non-Essential Operating Room Noise Impacts Clinician Well-Being, 2023
Clinically-Informed Design for Operating Theatres.
International panel of doctors discuss critical innovations that may improve patient outcomes and clinician performance.
Edelstein E & El Khorazaty. Clinical Perspectives: Enhanced Collaboration for Innovative Operating Theatres. European Healthcare Design Congress. 2023.
Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design (NAAD)
The Shapes of Human Expectations: Architecture, Daily Life, and Emotions
IN HOSPITALS
Edelstein E. Faculty,
June 2020- 2023.
NAAD, Master of Architecture and Neuroscience, IUAV University of Venice, Italy.
Venice Biennale
Neuroscience, Architecture & Design
Panel Presentation 2022
Workshops & Courses
Co-Founded
Clinicians for Design International
&
Building Blocks for Clinicians
with Great Ormond Street Hospital, London UK
Lessons from the Pandemic to Change the Hospital Model: Adapting Hospital Design for COVID-19
European Federation of Internal Medicine 2020
We have to change the hospital model in order to answer this and future pandemics but, at the same time, to preserve the care of the other patients. The physical environment has a direct and measurable impact on care and the health of providers and patients.
The mission of the new Quality and Professional Issues Working Group of EFIM is to contribute to a prospective thinking about the evolution of Internal Medicine in Europe, and to identify and disseminate the best strategies to monitor and improve the quality of care, standards of education and the scientific affirmation of Internal Medicine.
Artificial Intelligence & Architecture
We face new opportunities as architecture is equipped with computational vision, perception and dynamic reactions to the human experience of design.
COVID-19 Front Line Task Force: Whitepaper & Checklist
Perspectives from Clinician and Subject Matter Experts
2020
AIA COVID-19 FRONT LINE TASK FORCE Whitepaper & Checklist includes clinicians’ perspectives on new design challenges imposed by the novel coronavirus. “Knowledge of the COVID-19 disease, its pathogenesis, and treatment options are evolving daily, and the dynamic nature of the disease and its management ultimately determine space planning needs and design options.”
The Front Line Working Group of the AIA COVID-19 Task Force was comprised of specialists in emergency medicine, intensive care, anesthesia, nursing, hospital administrators, scientists and designers who collaborated to create a report and checklist from emerging findings and first-hand experience during the initial phase of the COVID-19 (February - May 2020).
COVID-19 Alternate Care Sites Whitepaper
Multiple Language Translations
AIA COVID-19 ALTERNATE CARE SITES
A Health Impact Briefing Method. The public health pandemic will continue to evolve with rapidly developing information changing day-to-day and even hour- by-hour requiring a rapid response approach.
Alternative Care Sites (ACS). The use of ACS requires a critical distinction in how to safely and effectively provide healthcare operations within a non- healthcare setting or building.
COVID-19 ArchMap. The COVID-19 ArchMap allows anyone to access case examples of design options to address COVID-19 care in the USA and internationally.
COVID-19 Alternate Care Site Checklist
Multiple Languages
EXPERTS EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN ON THE BRAIN
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE (AAAS)
20 MARCH, 2018
“When we change our environments, they change us,” said Eve Edelstein, research director in Chicago-based architecture firm Perkins+Will’s Human Experience and Gadget labs. The study of the brain’s ability to change over time, known as neuroplasticity, is driving us toward understanding the impact of design.
DESIGN THINKING FOR DOCTORS AND NURSES
THE NEW YORK TIMES
3 AUGUST, 2017
Online communities that support innovation are also springing up. Dr. Diana Anderson, an architect who went on to get a medical degree, along with Dr. Eve Edelstein, a neuroscientist who went on to get an architectural degree, co-founded Clinicians for Design in 2016. Their international network of health care providers engage in discussions and workshops, with a focus on improving health care delivery and the hospital’s physical layout.
ANTICIPATE CHALLENGE: DESIGN THAT OVERCOMES
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
NATIONAL CONFERENCE KEYNOTE
28 APRIL, 2017
A neuroscientist and two NASA design engineers from the Museum of Awe, presented compelling research to a rapt audience of more than 5,000 architects and designers at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2017's theme of "Anticipate Challenge: Design That Overcomes."
Dr. Eve Edelstein, Assoc. AIA, discussed the advances made in measuring the influence of design on health, wellbeing and behavior. Eve is an enthusiastic advocate for rigorous research-based design, translating brain science into architectural principles that merge form, function and delight.
INTERVIEW WITH DR. EVE EDELSTEIN
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD
23 JUNE, 2017
There is no question that design can have significant effects on our well-being—whether encouraging us to take stairs or exposing us to uplifting views of nature. Less obvious is how these decisions can influence us on a neurological level. Edelstein holds degrees in neuroscience, architecture, and anthropology that inform the translation of scientific evidence into design in workplaces through health-care facilities. Edelstein spoke with RECORD from London, where she was addressing a conference.
STANFORD MEDX: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR IMPROVED HEALTHCARE DELIVERY
How might we re-envision the hospital going forward?
17 SEPTEMBER 2017
Designers can walk the halls and talk to clinicians, but it can be challenging to learn the intricacies of a profession and its details of practice. Hybrid professionals can provide integrated solutions which cross disciplines in new ways, thus bridging this gap. Encouraging architects to experience medicine from a perspective that is typically hidden and allowing physicians to realize how design can create a context for participation would allow for a deeper understanding of health care delivery. By applying design-thinking to medicine, multidisciplinary approaches for solving current health care challenges can be developed.
CAPLA students at UA
BERKELEY PRIZE TEACHING FELLOWSHIP
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
MAY, 2013
Neuro-Universal Design for all Peoples in all Places
Expanding the Universe of design: Applying a Neuro-Architectural Process to Create Accessible Cities encouraged design thinking with an international faculty to go beyond traditional processes for all built settings.
An innovative curriculum based upon iterative interaction among architecture stu- dents, educators, and individuals with disabilities, integrated the emerging fields of ‘Neuro-Architecture’ and ‘Research-based Design’ to explore the influence of design on brain, body, and behavior.