{"589385":{"#nid":"589385","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Craig Zimring To Keynote Healthcare Symposium in Switzerland","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESimTigrate Design Lab Director \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/people\/craig-zimring\u0022\u003ECraig Zimring\u003C\/a\u003E will be the keynote speaker at a symposium on patient safety in Zurich, Switzerland, in April. His topic will be, \u0026ldquo;Safety by design: making the safest behavior, the easiest behavior.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZimring will be the only American among an international group of speakers at the Patient Safety Switzerland Symposium. The theme is \u0026ldquo;More patient safety by design: Systemic approaches for hospitals.\u0026rdquo; Patient Safety Switzerland is the country\u0026rsquo;s national foundation dedicated to safe medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt this meeting \u0026ldquo;systemic approaches for evi\u0026shy;dence-based design will be presented and future visions will be discussed,\u0026rdquo; according to the symposium brochure. Medical professionals, risk and quality managers, experts in patient safety, engineers, and architects are among those expected to attend this symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZimring was invited to this conference to share his expertise. He is one of the founders of the use of evidence-based design, which involves making design decisions based on the best available evidence, often acquired through research or review of peer-reviewed journals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Prof. Zimring is one of the leading experts worldwide in the field of patient safety and design \u0026ndash; that\u0026rsquo;s why we invited him to our symposium! We are looking forward to learning from his experiences and his expertise,\u0026rdquo; Prof. Dr. David Schwappach, Scientific Head of the Swiss Patient Safety Foundation, and Irene Kobler, a project manager with Patient Safety Switzerland, said in an email.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZimring and his \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.simtigrate.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESimTigrate Design Lab\u003C\/a\u003E focus on using design to create better and safer healthcare experiences, from intensive care units to surgical suites to patient rooms to outpatient care and more. The Lab\u0026#39;s past and present partners include the Military Health System, Children\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory Healthcare, Cherokee Indian Hospital, Mercy Clinic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many others.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe said \u0026ldquo;preventable medical errors in healthcare facilities are the third-leading cause of death in the U.S., resulting in 200,000-400,000 unnecessary deaths. Better design can reduce harms to patients.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZimring is also an environmental psychologist and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Architecture\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Design\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECraig Zimring, director of the SimTigrate Design Lab, will be the keynote speaker at a healthcare symposium on patient safety in Zurich, Switzerland, in April.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" Craig Zimring, director of the SimTigrate Design Lab, will be the keynote speaker at a healthcare symposium on patient safety in Zurich, Switzerland, in April. 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