Panel: What is unique about designing for healthcare?

Ever wonder what is unique about designing for healthcare?

Come find out as we partner with our co-hosts, the Design for Healthcare (https://www.meetup.com/Design-for-Healthcare/) meetup, to present a panel discussion exploring the question of how (and whether) design practice is different in the healthcare space.

We’ve put together an amazing panel of four healthcare innovation leaders (Matthew Jordan, Eunki Chung, Wellesley Chapman, and Kay Hofmeester -- see more info below) representing industry, academia, design consultancy, and healthcare delivery perspectives. All of the of panelists have deep expertise and a wealth of experience. You don’t want to miss it!

SCHEDULE

6:00p | Doors open

6:00 - 6:30p | food & drink & spontaneous conversation

6:30 - 8:00p | panel discussion, followed by Q&A

8:00 - 8:30p | more food & drink & spontaneous conversation

8:30p | clean up!

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

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Matthew Jordan is an Executive Creative Director and the Healthcare Practice Lead at Artefact, an innovation consultancy based in Seattle that focuses on design for a preferable future. Matthew has been consulting in the industry for close to 20 years, working with start-ups, mid-size companies, and large corporations in the consumer, technology, healthcare, and social sectors. Matthew is passionate about applying design thinking to the health industry and has deep expertise using human-centered research and design approaches and best practices to balance user needs and goals with business objectives to deliver meaningful experiences and actionable solutions.

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Eunki Chung is Professor of Interaction / Industrial Design at SCAD. Before SCAD, Eunki conducted his graduate and post-graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon School of Design and Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Eunki started his career at Apple in 2008, where he conducted early user / customer experience design in the dawn of mobile computing age. Eunki worked at Samsung Mobile and UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) as an interaction designer and researcher.

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Wellesley Chapman is Medical Director of Innovation & Business Development at Kaiser Permanente of Washington (KPWA). He joined KPWA (then Group Health) in 2008, serving as a Primary Care physician, Medical Center Chief, and Projects have included retail care (CareClinic) in partnership with Bartell Drugs, telemedicine (eVisits, chat), bundled care services (joint replacement, obstetrics), and vulnerable population care. Prior to his work in health care, Wellesley was a theater actor in Chicago, financial analyst in New York and Paris, and a Kerouac-wannabe-expat-bartender-lay-about.

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Kay Hofmeester has extensive product innovation experience as creative director in the tech industry. He worked with companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Nokia, Philips, IDEO and academic institutions like the Royal College of Art in the UK, TU Delft in the Netherlands and the University of Washington. He is the inventor on more than 30 patents. Recently he led the UX team that launched Echo at Amazon. He currently is the creative director for Microsoft Healthcare NExT, working in the area of patient engagement on innovating Microsoft’s products and services to improve outcomes in healthcare.