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🤩🎉Excited to announce the launch of the fifth episode of Conscious Creative Culture - Design thinking is disrupting and bringing innovation to health, healthcare and public health and it's on the rise with Dr. Kate Sellen👩🏻‍⚕️🥳🎙️🎬

Now streaming on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music🎧

Youtube:
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Spotify:
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🎉Announcement🤩
The speaker of the fifth podcast is - Dr. Kate Sellen👩🏻‍⚕️

We wrap up our last episode of this five-part mini-series with a deep dive into the emerging world of health design with Dr. Kate Sellen. Enjoy this in-depth conversation to learn about the growing field of health design, how it’s contributing to heath innovation in healthcare systems, health technology and how it’s creating a more human centered approach to improving health and healthcare experiences. We also get her hot take on why an interdisciplinary design approach to healthcare design challenges matter, and what the health and social good industry could potentially learn from the creative sector in solving health design challenges together.

Dr. Kate Sellen is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Design at OCAD U and Canada Research Chair in Health Design (Tier 2). She leads the Health Design Studio at OCAD U. She was the inaugural director of the Health Design Master’s Program. Kate spent her early career as an interaction designer leading design research, digital strategy, and interaction design in the private sector. She now works on bringing an inclusive and interdisciplinary design approach to healthcare design challenges. Much of her work focuses on design for patient safety in safety critical and on high sensitivity topics, including the dosing, ordering, tapering, and management of opiates, communication at end of life, and the issuing and delivery of blood units for surgery. She previously held positions at University of Toronto’s Technology for Ageing Gracefully Lab, Knowledge Media Design Institute, and AT&T.