Emma is a paediatric anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. She believes that the built environment should be used as a strategic tool in healthcare and that only with excellent clinical involvement in design can this be realised.

Jennifer is a healthcare planner and architect and has worked for Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital  and Murphy Philipps Architects. She has also worked at London Southbank University, teaching a Masters in Planning Buildings for Health and delivering research studies for health organisations. She is passionate about optimising the way we brief, design and evaluate our buildings to provide the best possible healthcare environments for all who use them.

Marc is a partner at Murphy Philipps Architects specialising in the design of healthcare facilities. He has also been involved with the writing of design guidance for the Department of Health and has completed a masters’ degree in Planning Buildings for Health. Marc believes in fostering a collaborative environment to enable the successful design of innovative healthcare settings.

Liz has a PhD in the relationship between ethical predisposition, governance and project success in NHS construction projects. She worked at London South Bank University as head of the Medical Architecture Research Unit and more recently at the University of Greenwich as a senior lecturer in construction project management. Her previous roles as a programme manager in the NHS and a capital investment manager for the NHS/DH have given Liz an interest in the governance of NHS healthcare projects.

Tom is a critical care consultant and clinical director at King’s College Hospital. He has a strong interest in how hospital design impacts clinical outcomes, staff wellbeing and patient experience. Early in his career he led a follow-up service for ICU patients and found that many linked their experience of delirium to the hospital environment. Over the last 10 years he has led the design and delivery of the new King’s Critical Care Centre. This includes an outdoor ICU rehab garden created in collaboration with Professor Nigel Dunnett. Tom is on the committee of the European Healthcare Design Congress.

Clare is the Lead Radiographer at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. She has more than 25 years of clinical paediatric imaging experience with a passion for quality improvement, putting patients at the heart of the matter.  She is a firm believer that clinicians should feel empowered to use their clinical experience to inform the design process in order to achieve successful design through meaningful collaboration.

Aly is a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, Scotland’s largest children’s hospital.  She is passionate about improving the experience that children, families and staff have in hospital and uses design approaches to explore and achieve this. Her design journey began many years ago when she was introduced to design theory during her time as a Scottish Quality and Safety Fellow.  She has since spearheaded a £1.2 million transformation of her children’s operating theatres to make them more child-friendly, welcoming and comforting.