Meet Diana Anderson

She is the recipient of an Alzheimer’s Association Clinician Scientist Fellowship award to study how the homes and communities of older adults can affect cognitive, social, and mental health. Her hybrid career model integrates clinical practice alongside design research and project work to improve patient experience and public health. As a past Fellow at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, she also explores space design and ethics.

Dr. Anderson is the Co-Founder of Clinicians for Design (CfD), an international network of leaders which seeks to inspire and accelerate the design of environments and systems. CfD offers a unique forum for clinicians to apply their insights and experience in “design thinking” that serves medical practice, and the evolution of policies that will enhance patient and provider outcomes to help shape the future of hospitals, medicine and healthcare. She is also in the process of developing and growing the Mass General Brigham (MGB) Health Design Lab, based in Boston. The lab’s mission is to leverage the collective intelligence of clinicians and designers to solve healthcare’s greatest challenges, advancing the interface between healthcare and design across four domains: Research, Education, Practice, and Policy.

In 2018, she was recognized for her contributions to the field by the American Institute of Architects’ Academy of Architecture for Health U40 List of Healthcare Design’s Best under 40. More recently, Dr. Anderson was elected to the Council of Fellows by the American College of Healthcare Architects’ Board of Regents, an honor held for those that exhibit and represent the highest standards of the health design profession.