Her Story
About Shilpa
I'm a healthcare designer and architect by profession. My mother is an architect, so I was always influenced by architecture. I started with a bachelor's degree, and it was the beginning of COVID when I was looking for jobs after my master's. I was very interested in healthcare design and how hospitals were built. At that time, they offered me a PhD position and said they needed somebody who could do research on emergency rooms, and that's how I actually started. I had my master's in history, theory, and criticism, but very soon I shifted to neuroscience and design. I was offered a PhD position at Texas A&M to do research on hybrid operating rooms - cardiovascular operating rooms which combined surgery and imaging. I was focusing on how these spaces affect nurses, because they're working in traditional environments, and how the advent of modern technology is affecting them. I currently work as a healthcare designer where I design operating rooms using my evidence and my research. I've been in this field for about 8 to 9 years.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Shilpa
01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say it's very important to be consistent and passionate about the cause to be a healthcare designer, because more often than not, we get lost in technical details, and we forget the larger picture as to who we are impacting, and I think that's very important.
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