Brian co-leads the CannonDesign St. Louis Healthcare practice. He is well versed in Strategic Planning, Conceptual Planning, Healthcare Operations, Programming, and Cost Estimating. His background as an Architect, combined with his experience as a healthcare planner allows him serve as a translator between technical teams and the clinical user groups who are focused on hospital operations and functionality. He has a true passion and finds great enjoyment in working with clients, clinical users and consultants. He is a graduate of the CannonDesign's Healthcare Fellowship which is an 18-month immersion focused on healthcare planning, strategy, and leadership.
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Future-Proofing Emergency Departments: Adaptable Environments for Supporting Community Crises
Emergency Departments (ED) can be instantaneously overwhelmed, requiring resilient, adaptable, and flexible solutions of the built environment. Like many healthcare organizations, UC Health, an academic medical organization located in Cincinnati, Ohio, experienced major space challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic on-set and peak. This scenario, and others that ED’s are faced with, can be better supported by innovative uses of non-clinical environments on campus. In this presentation, we will demonstrate solutions applied to an adjacent space to the renovated ED at University of Cincinnati Medical Center that provides added social distanced seating for the entire campus, accommodates separate entries to avoid cross-contaminating infectious and non-infectious presenters, activates additional patient care environments supporting the ED proper, and integrates security and safety measures for all in high-stress, potentially dangerous situations. UC Health has received congressional funding for this project through the CARES (Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act as it will benefit the readiness of the only Level 1 Trauma Center in Cincinnati to better serve the community with a future-proof, resilient facility. Upon completion, the space activation methodologies will be folded into regional readiness training for emergency scenarios and serve as an example of the future of Level 1 Trauma Centers.
Hosted by the Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH).
Course expires 5/29/2026