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2024

2023

“Design of Critical Care Facilities,” Prerecorded collaborative presentation (with Frank Zilm and D. Kirk Hamilton) presented at CHCC (China Hospital Construction Conference), Western China International Expo City, Chengdu, June 17-19, 2023.   

2021

“Critical Care Design: The History and Future,” collaborative webinar presentation (with Frank Zilm, D. Kirk Hamilton, and Julie Fairman), AIA Webinar presented through the Academy of Architecture for Health, December 14, 2021. 

August 26, “What Nineteenth Century Hospital Designers Knew about Minimizing Airborne Transmission and Why It’s Been Forgotten”, Cecil Striker Society for the History of Medicine Webinar Lecture, University of Cincinnati, zoom link available at: libraries.uc.edu/libraries/hsl/winkler-center/cecil-striker.html

April 22, “Open and Shut: A Brief History of the Changing Expectations of the Hospital Window,” Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT), Lisbon, Portugal, web conference, https://ciuhct.org/conferencias/conferencias-ciuhct/29-open-and-shut

2020

March 11, “Open and Shut: A Brief History of Hospital Windows and Shifting Perceptions of Institutional Efficiency,” George Washington Corner Society Lecture, Rochester Academy of Medicine, NY, 6:30pm

January 29-31. Commenter at “Feeling Dis/Ease: New Perspectives on Modern History,” Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.