Khatereh “Kati” Hadi is interested in how design can impact healthcare. The graduate student in the College of Architecture is a research assistant in the SimTigrate Design Lab at Georgia Tech. That is a perfect place for her. The research lab is dedicated to creating better healthcare experiences. Her research interests include improved design for intensive care units. She tells her story in the latest issue of Research Horizons magazine.

Her work on her master’s thesis led to her interest in hospital design. While working on a project for the design of an office building, she learned how thrilled they were with the suggested changes and realized how important design is to people’s daily lives.

“If office buildings have impact to this extent, I wondered what impact design could have in hospitals where patients are in critical situations. For them, design can be a matter of life or death,” she said in the profile.

Khatereh Hadi Looks at How to Improve Healthcare Through Design