Advisory Board Membership

The College of Design confers Healthcare Design Initiative board membership on those individuals who share a passion for transforming healthcare design, operations, and interrelated industries.

In its advisory capacity, the board will help create a holistic, interdisciplinary educational curriculum in healthcare design, planning, and related services. Utilizing their diverse expertise, board members will direct a strategic agenda to promote radical improvements to healthcare industry design standards. Ultimately, this agenda will help identify critical issues facing healthcare systems in Arizona and potentially help transform hospitals design/operations on national and international levels.

Membership Expectations

Critical to the success of the program, membership on the board reflects multiple entities within the healthcare industry. This includes healthcare systems representatives; hospitals administrators and staff; architectural, interior, and industrial designers and consultants; physicians, nurses, and clinical staff; vendors and equipment manufacturers; medical researchers; community leaders; and public users.

The board will convene twice annually: these meetings will serve as a forum for the introduction and discussion of issues and the identification of program priorities. Based on personal expertise and individual roles, members will also meet with the program director and deans on an occasional basis to address specific topics or concerns.

Benefits of Membership

• Historic opportunity to help shape the first community-involved, expert-mentored graduate degree program in Healthcare Design and Healing Environments

• Opportunity to meet and work with professionals who are passionate about the transformation of healthcare design and delivery

• Opportunity for direct involvement with the anchor colleges (Design, Nursing, Business) in addition to associate schools (Journalism/Mass Communication, Liberal Arts, Construction)

• Opportunity to publicly demonstrate support for higher education and healthcare in the Southwest

• Exposure to cutting-edge healthcare research through interaction with program faculty and graduate students and with program magazine—an interdisciplinary class effort lead by the College of Design, College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation, and Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication

Exclusive Benefits of Membership

• Open attendance to lectures and special events (individual or company) in program

• Opportunities to meet and interact with students in the program. Future students will be exposed to both healthcare design and related consulting services. 

• Direct opportunity to suggest students’ programs, research, and studio projects

• Premium advertising space in program magazine

• Opportunity to participate in student exchange program with national and international healthcare institutions

• Listing on the door of sponsors in the healthcare studio

• Website link under industry sponsors

• Access to student research, published articles, and design innovations

• Use of the College of Design’s facility at the ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus—the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory (PURL) learning environment and conference spaces as available

• Recognition in marketing and public relations efforts, which includes press coverage, newsletters, publications, collateral, etc.

• Access to a comprehensive healthcare design research database

Expectations

• Attend two board meetings and special events as scheduled. Meetings will focus on the development of the Master of Healthcare Design and Healing Environments. Additionally, board meetings will cover program goal setting, developing strategies, fundraising, student recruitment and placement, continued curriculum development, research directions, and international involvements.

• Participate by actively lending your expertise, experience, and leadership

• Serve as an advocate on behalf of the program to local and global industry and community leaders

• Assist program director in strengthening the program by identifying, engaging, soliciting, and stewarding individuals, corporations, and organizations that have the potential to make a significant impact on the program

• Represent and promote the program—its programming, activities, and events—in your sphere of influence and the various communities with which you are involved

• Attend and participate in program events including fundraising events

• Board members will be considered for membership in steering committee

• Demonstrate your personal commitment to the program and its mission by making a $5,000 annual contribution