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NOTICE OF MEETING
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Indoor Air Quality & Healthcare
ASHRAE Toronto & CaGBC Joint Dinner Meeting
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| Date: |
Monday October 1st, 2018
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| Venue: |
Novotel Toronto Centre
45 The Esplanade, Toronto, ON M5E 1W2
Directions
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| Networking & Registration: |
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
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| Dinner & Presentation: |
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm |
FEATURED PRESENTATION
Healthcare-Associated Infections and Hospital Indoor Air Quality
As new research clarifies how essential the built environment is to patient healing and employee health and productivity Dr. Taylor will communicate clear and up to date research on how indoor air management relates to patient healing, length of stay and hospital profits. Given the exorbitant cost of healthcare, the frightening increase in antibiotic resistance, and the epidemic of patient harm from new infections, these insights offer exciting new tools that cannot be ignored. In addition, this study shows that the current focus on hand hygiene and surface disinfection to decrease transmission of infections will never be adequate without considering the added dimension of indoor management. For those still unconvinced about the value, the business case for these interventions will be presented. Best of all, these findings apply to all building types, not just hospitals.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
Stephanie Taylor, M.D., M. Arch
CEO, Taylor Healthcare Consulting
Dr. Stephanie Taylor received her MD from Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts in 1984. For the next several decades, she practiced clinical medicine and did academic research in cellular growth mechanisms. During this time, she became increasingly concerned about patients who were harmed by new infection during their in-patient treatment. Determined to gain a better understanding of the impact of the built environment on patient well-being, she returned to school and obtained her Master's Degree I Architecture and Engineering from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. After working for several years in a healthcare design architecture firm, she founded Taylor Healthcare Consulting, Inc., in order to focus on designing, building and maintaining hospitals to better support patient healing. She quickly learned that many of the building and indoor air characteristics that affect people in hospitals also influenced the health of all people in buildings.
Dr. Taylor is currently working at the intersection of architectural design, indoor air management, the microbiome of the built environment and occupant health. She finds the impact of buildings on our health startling! Managing the built environment and indoor air with the goal of decreasing diseases from acute infections to chronic inflammation to cognitive impairment, is a very underutilized yet powerful approach to disease prevention. She finds that her physician insights and biological research helps her understand the science behind the interaction of buildings, human physiology and energy consumption.
Dr. Taylor has designed hospitals globally, from the United States to Papua New Guinea to Vietnam. In addition to her Taylor Healthcare Consulting work, she is a member of the Harvard Medical School Incite Health Fellowship. This program brings together multidisciplinary teams from across the US, trains them in design thinking and entrepreneurship, and gives them the tools and resources to guide the future of medical care.
To communicate her work and understanding about the fascinating convergence of human health, microbiology and architecture, Dr. Taylor writes monthly columns and bi-annual feature articles for Engineered Systems Magazine and publishes in other healthcare journals.
She is an active member of ASHRAE, ASHE and national and international medical associations.
Special Notice: Attention Student Members
As the theme of this dinner meeting is Student Promotion Night, ASHRAE Toronto Chapter would like to extend this notice of meeting to all interested college and university students. Students can register for this event at a discounted rate of $35 and an ASHRAE membership (both Society and Chapter) is not required for students to attend. However, registration is still required and no walk-in registrations will be permitted.
No Walk-In Registrations will be Permitted
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Need Assistance?
Feel free to contact the following:
Badri Patel
ASHRAE Toronto Membership Chair
[Badri.Patel@mail.ashrae.org]
Beatriz Salazar
ASHRAE Toronto Technology Transfer Committee Chair
[Bo.Salazarg@gmail.com]
ASHRAE Toronto Chapter | 2350 Matheson Blvd. East #101, Mississauga ON L4W 5G9
