DATE: January 23, 2008

CONTACT: David Allison, (864) 656-3897
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WRITER: Ross Norton, (864) 656-4810
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EXPERT: David Allison

Allison named among 20 making a difference in health design

CLEMSON — HEALTHCARE DESIGN magazine has named Clemson University architecture professor David Allison one of “Twenty Who Are Making a Difference” in the health-care design field.

Allison is director of Clemson’s graduate program in architecture and health. He also is director of a new project establishing the Center of Economic Excellence (CoEE) in Health Facilities Design and Testing.

“There is no debate that David has had a tremendous impact on the health-care design profession over the last 25 years,” the HEALTHCARE DESIGN story says. “As an architect, David is passionate in his role as an educator, not only to his students in the graduate architecture program in healthcare studies at Clemson University, but to his professional colleagues nationally.”

The magazine says Allison is a “visionary leader using an interdisciplinary approach to research the impact the built environment has on patients, families and staff.”

Allison was nominated for the honor by Kathy L. Bell of The S/L/A/M Collaborative, an architecture, engineering and planning firm with offices in Atlanta, Boston and Glastonbury, Conn. Bell is a Clemson alumna, though not a former student of Allison’s.

As director of Graduate Studies in Health + Architecture at Clemson, Allison leads one of only three professional degree programs in the nation with a concentration in the design of health-care architecture.

The CoEE in Health Facilities Design and Testing will conduct design-research projects using experts from a variety of disciplines ranging from architecture, psychology, materials science and computer science.

Healthcare Design published the “Twenty Who Are Making a Difference” in the December issue, which can be viewed online now at www.healthcaredesignmagazine.com.