EP 107: Designing the Hospital at Home | Helen Ouyang

Design Lab with Bon Ku

Can hospital care be delivered at home? Will the hospital of the future only consist of ERs, ORs and ICUs?

Dr. Helen Ouyang is an emergency physician, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Columbia University, and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has written for The Atlantic, Harper’s, Los Angeles Times, New York, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. Her writing has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and funded by The Pulitzer Center. Helen has worked in 20 countries across five continents in public health and humanitarian assistance. Her publications have also appeared in many academic medical journals, including The Lancet and JAMA, and she currently serves as a reviewer for Annals of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. She is also a mentor-editor for The OpEd Project. Until 2015, Helen was the Associate Director of Columbia’s International Emergency Medicine Fellowship. After graduating with a bachelor of arts from Brown University, Helen went to medical school at Johns Hopkins and studied for a master’s in public health at Harvard, where she was also a Zuckerman Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Public Leadership. Upon completing her training at Harvard, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, she moved out to the Pacific Northwest before finding her way back to the East Coast.

Episode mentions and links:

https://helenouyang.com

Your Next Hospital Bed Might Be At Home via NY Times Magazine

Can Virtual Reality Help Ease Chronic Pain via NY Times Magazine

Restaurant Helen would take you to: Bernie’s Restaurant

Follow Helen: Twitter | LinkedIn

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/107