White Papers by Title
ASHE is pleased to provide session papers that are available for the 2007 International Conference & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction, (PDC) held February 25 - 28, 2007 in San Antonio, TX for your review. For ASHE members that were unable to attend the 2007 PDC, these papers are available for your review only---they are not printable or reproducible in any format.
Note: White papers are not available for all sessions offered at the PDC Conference. You must be a registered ASHE member to view these PDFs on the web. 
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- AIA Forum: Architects in Healthcare Organizations Forum (no paper provided)
Facilitator: Vincent Della Donna, AIA, VITETTA, Program Director for Healthcare, Philadelphia, PA - AIA Forum: Codes and Standards Forum (no paper provided)
Facilitators: Kenneth N. Dickerman, AIA, ACHA, FHFI, Director of Healthcare; Leo A Daly Company, Miami, FL Rebecca J. Lewis, AIA, ACHA, CID, Partner, DSGW Architects, Duluth, MN - AIA Forum: Health Environments Research Forum (no paper provided)
Facilitator: Frank Zilm, DArch, FAIA, FACHA, Frank Zilm & Associates, Inc., President, Kansas City, MO - AIA Forum: Health Facilities Strategic Planning Team Forum (no paper provided)
Facilitator: Gary W. Collins, AIA, Associate Principal, Anshen + Allen Architects, San Francisco, CA; Speakers: David W. Ennis, Senior Vice President, Kaufman Hall & Associates, Skokie, IL; Zachary Hafner, Assistant Vice President, Kaufman Hall & Associates, Skokie, IL - AIA Forum: Neuroscience and Architecture Forum (no paper provided)
Facilitator: Francis Murdock Pitts, AIA, FACHA, OAA, architecture +, Troy, NY
Speaker: Eve Edelstein, MArch, PhD (neuro), Assoc. AIA, Visiting - AIA Forum: Technology Forum (no paper provided)
Facilitator: Lisa Charrin, AIA, ACHA, President, Equipment Collaborative Inc., Houston, TX - AIA Forum: Therapeutic Environments Forum (no paper provided)
Facilitator: Ron Smith, AIA, ACHA, LEED®AP, Senior Project Manager for Healthcare Projects, Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Houston, TX - ANSI 942 and Expanding Data Demands of Healthcare Facilities
Faculty: Scott Bell, National Manager Program Review and Support, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA; Don King, Director of Maintenance & Operations, Kaiser Permanente National Facilities Services, Oakland, CA; John Pappas, Principal, Mazzetti & Associates, San Francisco, CA - Building Green One Step at a Time
Faculty: Mike Smith, President & CEO, Mahlum Architects, Portland, OR; Tony Church, Senior Project Manager, Skanska USA Building Inc., Seattle, WA; Richard Beam, Director of Energy Management, Providence Health and Services, Seattle, WA - Building the Ultimate Information System (no paper provided)
Faculty: Rich Pollack, Vice President & CIO, VCU Health Systems, Richmond, VA - Clinical Operations Impact on Design (no paper provided)
Faculty: Constance Nestor, Director of Design and Construction, Advocate Health Care, Chicago, IL - Design in Intensive Care Medicine (no paper provided)
Faculty: Arthur St. Andre, MD, FCCM, Director, Surgical Critical Care, Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC; Debajyoti Pati,MD, Director of Research, HKS, Inc, Dallas, TX, Thomas E Harvey, Senior Vice President, HKS, Inc., Dallas, TX - Design Strategies to Reinvent the Imaging Experience (no paper provided)
Faculty: Morris Stein, FAIA, FACHA, Principal and Senior Vice President, HKS/The Stein Cox Group, Phoenix, AZ; Lawrence Murphy, Chief Industrial Engineer, G.E. Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI - Designing Healing into the Entire Healthcare Site
Faculty: Kyle Slocum, ASLA, Principal, The S/L/A/M Collaborative, Glastonbury, CT; Henry Thomas, ASLA, Associate, The S/L/A/M Collaborative, Glastonbury, CT - Effective Planning for Successful Transition
Faculty: Robin Voss, RN, MHA, TNCC-I, Director, Emergency & Trauma Services, Forsyth Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC - Evidence Based Design
Faculty: David Kamp, Principal, Dirtworks, PC Landscape Architecture, New York, NY; Nancy Gerlach-Spriggs, Executive Co-Director, Meristem, New York, NY - Going Green: Becoming a Sustainable Hospital
Faculty: Robert Bonar Jr., Dr. HA, President & CEO, Children’s Hospital of Austin, Austin, TX; Thomas Snearey, Senior Vice President, Karlsberger Companies, Columbus, OH - Guidelines on Acoustical Design Healthcare
Faculty: David Sykes, Managing Director, Remington Partners, Cambridge, MA; Jo Solet, PhD., Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA; Kurt Rockstroh, AIA, ACHA, President/CEO, Steffian Bradley Architects, Boston, MA; Gregory Tocci, Senior Principal Consultant, Cavanaugh Tocci Associates, Inc, Sudbury, MA - How Going Green Can Help You Survive Deregulation
Faculty: Carol Harwell, Product development Coordinator, Austin Energy, Austin, TX; A. Clark James, Director of Facilities & Engineering, York Hospital, York, ME - How Is The Changing Workforce In Healthcare Influencing Planning and Design Decisions?
Faculty: Constance Harmsen, President, Harmsen and Associates Healthcare Consulting, Phoenix, AZ; Neil Terry, Architect/Director of Healthcare, The Orcutt Winslow Partnership, Phoenix, AZ - How Much Can Evidence Based Design Improve the U.S. Healthcare System?
Faculty: Ray Pentecost III, Dr. PH, AIA, ACHA, Vice President – Director of Healthcare Architecture, Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering, Norfolk, VA - How the Icons Have Fared IV: New Lessons Learned
Faculty: Donald McKahan, AIA, FACHA, Principal, McKahan Planning Group, Del Mar, CA; D. Kirk Hamilton, FAIA, FACHA, Associate Professor in Health Design, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX - Ideal Planning Process; Reality After Construction Part II
Faculty: Mary Ann Derr, RN, MBA, Healthcare Director, Messer Construction Co., Cincinnati, OH - Infection in Healthcare: The Use of Computer Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Modeling Techniques to Optimize Room Air Flow Patterns (no paper provided)
Faculty: Duncan Phillips PhD., P.Eng, Project Director/Senior Specialist, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin (RWDI) Inc., Guelph, Ontario, Canada - JCAHO Update (no paper provided)
Faculty: Charles Wilson, Associate Director, Standards Interpretations, The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, IL - Keynote Presentation - The Afterburners (no paper provided)
- Lighting in the Healthcare Environment
Faculty: Denise Fong, Principal, Candela, Seattle, WA - Making the Big Decisions Rapidly: Assembling the Right Resources and Molding a Collaborative Team
Faculty: Brad Pollitt, Vice President, Facilities, Shands Healthcare, Gainesville, FL; Laura Stillman, Principal/Project Director, Flad & Associates, Madison, WI; Karen Duffard, Senior Manager, Kurt Salmon Associates, Atlanta, GA - Managing Energy Performance During and After Expansions and Renovations
Faculty: Skanda Skandaverl, SASHE, CHFM, Director, Facilities Management, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Lawrence, KS; Gary Thompson, Building Operations Director, St. Francis Hospital, Maryville, MO - Mental Health Facility Design in Response to Patient Need and Clinical Practice (no paper provided)
Faculty: Francis Murdock Pitts, AIA, FACHA, OAA. Principal, architecture+, Troy, New York - Pandemic Influenza for Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
Faculty: Kathie McCracken, RN, MHA, FACHE, Pandemic Influenza Program Manager and Healthcare Sector Specialist, Infrastructure Partnerships Division, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC - Plenary: Economic Forces Shaping Healthcare (no paper provided)
Faculty: Kenneth Kaufman, M.B.A., Managing Partner, Kaufman Hall & Associates, Skokie, IL - Plenary: Globalization: Healthcare Will Never be the Same (no paper provided)
Faculty: Dr. D. Bruce Merrifield, PhD, President, Pridco Management Co., Washington, DC - Plenary: The View from Washington: Hot Topics Affecting Hospitals (no paper provided)
Faculty: Rick Pollack, Executive Vice President, Advocacy and Public Policy, American Hospital Association (AHA), Washington, DC - Pre-Conference - Guidelines for Design and Construction of Healthcare Facilities (no paper provided)
Speakers: Douglas S. Erickson, FASHE, Director of Research and Development, ASHE, Chicago, IL; Kenneth N. Dickerman, AIA, ACHA, FHFI, Director of Healthcare, Leo A Daly Company, Miami, FL - Renovation
Faculty: Ted Bloomfield, Director of Facilities Planning & Construction Services, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN - Research that Supports Evidence Based Design and Affects Positive Patient Outcomes and Staff Satisfaction
Faculty: Fred Buenning AIA/AAH, Principal, H+L Architecture, Denver, CO; Mary Shepler, Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, Wheat Ridge, CO - Statements Which Seem to Aggravate Owners Most
Faculty: Philip Sun, Institutional Consulting Practice Leader, Carter Burgess, El Cerrito, CA - Strategies to Embrace Emerging Disruptive Technologies
Faculty: Paul Meade, President, Clear Point Health, LLC, Chapel Hill, NC - The Evidence of Evidence-Based Design (no paper provided)
Faculty: Cynthia Siepel, Director of Strategic Facility Planning, Christner Inc, St. Louis, MO; Christine Crain, RN, Vice President, St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis, MO - The Healthcare Design Team: Delivering a Service or Providing a Product?
Faculty: J. Michael Higginbotham, Esq., Construction Litigation Partner, Long & Levit LLP, San Francisco, CA; Walter Vernon, IV, PE, LEED, AP, Principal, Mazzetti & Associates, San Francisco, CA - The Hospital of the Future
Faculty: John Ruffo, FAIA, FACHA, Partner, WRNS Studio, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Bill Woodson, Vice President, Sg2, Skokie, IL - The PDC Process (no paper provided)
Faculty: Ken Cates, SASHE, Principal, Northstar Management Company LLC, St. Louis, MO; Mark Barkenbush, V.P. of Facilities/Real Estate, Abrazo Healthcare, Phoenix, AZ - The Real MEP Numbers: Understanding and Programming MEP Systems in Square Footages and Building Multipliers (no paper provided)
Faculty: Jennifer Aliber, AIA, LEED, AP, ACHA, Principal, Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, Boston, MA; Marco DiRenzo, Associate Principal, Bard, Rao + Athanas, Watertown, MA; Pat Banse, Senior Mechanical Engineer/Project Manager, Smith Seckman Reid, Houston, TX - Thinking Beyond the Boom – Think Tank
Faculty: John Kouletsis, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA; Walt Vernon, Mazzetti & Associates, San Francisco, CA; Tom Van Landingham, Associate, Christner, Inc., St. Louis, MO - Top 10 Ways to Avoid Construction Claims on Healthcare Projects
Faculty: Robert Crewdson, Partner, Alton & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GA; Robert Osburn, Construction Mgr, Hardin Construction, Atlanta, GA; True Morse, Director of Facility Planning, Mission Health, Inc., Asheville, NC; Burn Sears, AIA, Vice President and treasurer, Stanley Beaman & Sears, Atlanta, GA - VISTA Award Discussion Panel (no paper provided)
Moderator: Leo M. Gehring, CHFM, SASHE, 2007 ASHE President, Vice Chancellor for Campus
Operations, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR - Whole Building Energy Modeling
Faculty: Clark Reed, National Healthcare Manager, ENERGY STAR®,U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC; Brian Dean, LEEP AP, Senior Associate, ICF International, Fairfax, VA - Zero Energy Building
Faculty: Peter Ellis, Design Partner, Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, Chicago, IL; Roger Frechette, Director of MEP Engineering, Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, Chicago, IL; Joan Suchomel, Senior Health & Science Specialist, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Chicago, IL