Co-Founder/Chief Innovation Officer Aidan Petrie on Medical Design Panel

September 18, 2009

Ximedica Co-Founder/Chief Innovation Officer Aidan Petrie will participate on the Medical Design panel for A Better World by Design 09 taking place in Providence, RI October 2-4, 2009.

A Better World by Design brings a global community of innovators to Rhode Island, to reach across disciplines and unite under a common goal. Presenters share engaging stories, workshops teach creative skills, and discussions reframe perspectives. A Better World by Design is an immersive experience that deepens our understanding of the power of design, technology, and enterprise to reshape our communities and sustain our environment.

The Medical Design panel will address the ways in which designers and engineers can create products and spaces that benefit the medical sector. From the design of large scale hospitals, small scale mobile clinics, prostheses, advanced scanning equipment, methods of birth control, and surgical tools, design is an indispensable part of the field of medicine. This panel welcomes a discussion on such intersections between biomedicine, science, and design. What unique considerations are imperative to the design of medical products? What special needs should an architect of a hospital keep in mind? How have innovative healthcare products helped alter and advance the field of medicine?

Other panelists include Moderator Trey Crisco, Brown Med; Jonathan Spector, Doctors Without Borders & Impact Pediatrics Int'l; Tim Prestero, Design that Matters.

A Better World by Design was founded and is organized annually by an interdisciplinary group of students from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. The excitement that the students put into the conference each year spreads through the community of presenters and attendees, showing the world that passion can be contagious too.




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