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Vanderbilt symposium brings together national experts to explore making health care more sustainable for the future
Aug. 18, 2023—From rising labor and energy costs to an aging population whose demand for medical services is expected to surge in the coming years, health care leaders agree that the system must prepare for a set of unprecedented challenges. “More hospitals in the United States have closed over the last year than in any year in...
Vanderbilt engineering professor will use Israel exchange fellowship to explore innovations in water and energy usage for food production
Dec. 16, 2022—Sanjiv Gokhale, Engineering Endowed Director of Construction Management and professor of the practice of civil engineering, is among 35 faculty members from U.S. universities and colleges who will tour Israel through a fellowship program sponsored by the Jewish National Fund-USA’s Boruchin Center and other supporters. The fellows will travel throughout Israel Dec. 26 to Jan. 8...
Sanjiv Gokhale named Engineering Endowed Director of Construction Management
Jul. 11, 2022—Sanjiv Gokhale, professor of the practice of civil engineering and longtime director of the Construction Management graduate program, has been named the Engineering Endowed Director of Construction Management, effective July 1, 2022. Gokhale joined the Vanderbilt civil engineering faculty as a visiting associate professor in 2001. In 2003, he was appointed associate professor of the...
With COVID not yet history, symposium looks to health care construction and delivery
Aug. 6, 2021—With beds for critically ill COVID-19 patients filling as fast as they could add them, leaders of top national hospitals systems say they looked to nontraditional spaces to increase bed space and outside health care for logistics ideas. In turn, other industries, including hospitality and gaming industries as well as fast-casual restaurants and airports, looked...
Top Google Cloud Healthcare adviser to address Vanderbilt construction symposium
Aug. 6, 2019—Dr. Toby Cosgrove, longtime president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic and now executive adviser to Google Cloud Healthcare, is the keynote speaker at Vanderbilt School of Engineering’s annual Healthcare Design & Construction Symposium. He will address the sold-out crowd Thursday, Aug. 8. This year’s theme is the “Intersection of Built Environment and Healthcare Delivery” and...
Uncertain times should not stop healthcare facility innovation, efficiency, accountability, experts say
Aug. 14, 2017—Though the event title highlighted the “Epidemic of Uncertainty” surrounding the U.S. health care system, attendees left the 11th Healthcare Design and Construction Symposium with concrete ideas for moving forward. Among them: Ways the built care delivery environment can lower costs but better serve patients and clinicians; how huge data aggregation efforts can deliver insights...
National experts diagnose ‘epidemic of uncertainty’ on healthcare construction, tech investment, patient experience
Aug. 4, 2017—In today’s political climate, uncertainty impairs the ability of health care facilities to plan for the future, expand to meet demand, and take full advantage of technological leaps. How to balance that uncertainty with patient needs, aging infrastructure, and growing security threats is the focus of the School of Engineering’s 11th Annual Healthcare Design &...
How much more development can Nashville sustain?
Mar. 9, 2017—Gubernatorial candidate Karl Dean joins top builders, architects, and brokers at annual Construction Management Symposium Nashville has been on a roll, but Music City faces significant challenges to additional development, including high land prices, limited mass transit, increased traffic congestion, and a shortage of affordable housing for renters as well as homeowners, according to experts...