How Designers Are Transforming Healthcare

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PROFESSOR EVONNE MILLER QUT Design Lab School of Design Faculty of Creative Industries Education & Social Justice Queensland University of TechnologyEvonne is Professor of Design Psychology at Queensland University of Technology and Director of the QUT Design Lab. Co-Director of the HEAL (Healthcare Excellence AcceLerator) initiative her research centres on design for health drawing on participatory co-design arts-based and knowledge translation approaches to understand communicate improve and re-design the experience of healthcare. She is the author co-author or editor of 4 books exploring how we can create places that foster both planetary and human health.DR SATYAN CHARIHealthcare Improvement Unit Clinical Excellence Queensland.Dr Satyan Chari is Co-Director of the HEAL (Healthcare Excellence AcceLerator) initiative. Satyan leads engagement within Queensland Healths Clinical Excellence Queensland (CEQ) team and the wider health system. Clinically trained in occupational therapy and with a PhD in patient safety Satyan has cross-disciplinary expertise in human factors engineering participatory design complexity science and systems innovation. He advises globally on quality innovation programs.DR ABBE WINTERQUT Design Lab Faculty of Creative Industries Education & Social Justice Queensland University of TechnologyDr Abigail Winter is a results-driven writing specialist collaborative mentor and independent researcher skilled in the analysis of words and data for user needs. Abbe is a researcher trainer leader and mentor with over 20 years experience in quality assurance and change and project management. While her PhD focused on what helps workers in higher education cope with large-scale organisational change and she was part of the small team that created and developed the concept of academagogy (the scholarly leadership of learning) her more recent research has focussed upon professional identity developing writing skills and reflective practice.