MISSION

I believe everything we design & create can measurably improve health.

I leverage my expertise in health, design & data analytics to help complex organizations improve their products, places and processes for health. As such, I have become an advocate for Health in All Design and deliberately collaborate across a breadth of academic and private sectors to redesign our entire approach to healthcare delivery. 

RESEARCH

Academic Press

safe surgical care for rural communities

Ibrahim AM, Hughes T, Thumma J, Dimick JB. “Association of Hospital Critical Access Status with Surgical Outcomes and Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries.”  JAMA.  2016;315(19):2095-2103. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.5618.

Missed warning signs within existing healthcare data

Ibrahim AM,  Dimick JB. “Monitoring Medical Devices: Missed Warnings Signs within Existing Data.” JAMA. 2017;318(4):327-328. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.6584

COVID ARCHITECTURE & AIR CHANGES

Allen, JG. Ibrahim, AM, “Indoor Air Changes and Potential Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Transmission.” JAMA. 2021;325(20):2112-2113

Social Vulnerability & Access to Care

Zhang…Ibrahim AM. “Social Vulnerability And Outcomes For Access-Sensitive Surgical Conditions Among Medicare Beneficiaries.” Health Affairs (Millwood). 2022 May;41(5):671-679.

Public Press

Hospital Design after COVID

Ibrahim AM. “What Comes Next? A surgeon’s 3 predictions for the Future of Healthcare Design” Fast Company. April 2020, Available online: https://www.fastcompany.com/90493229/what-comes-next-a-surgeons-3-predictions-for-the-future-of-healthcare-design

Redesigning Network Delivery

Ibrahim AM. Dimick JD. “Redesigning the Delivery of Speciality Care within Newly Formed Hospital Networks” N Engl J Med Catalyst. April 2017, Available online: http://catalyst.nejm.org/redesigning-specialty-care-delivery/

TRaining across sectors

Ibrahim AM. Fleisher L. “Rethinking the Challenges of Healthcare: A Call for Tri-Sector Leaders” N Engl J Med Catalyst. June 2016, Available online: http://catalyst.nejm.org/rethinking-challenges-of-health-care-time-cultivate-more-tri-sector-leaders/ 

WrITING GUIDE

Ibrahim AM. Dimick JD. “Writing for Impact: How to Prepare a Journal Article” (2017). Download Full PDF Here. 

Remainder of publications

PubMed
GoogleScholar

Resources

Below are videos and guides I created with colleagues and mentees. Each are free to watch or download.

How to design a hospital

The process of designing a hospital is complex. This guide summarizes the key phases of design identifying the goals of each phase, expected deliverable and possible tools that can be utilized.

WRITING FOR IMPACT

Writing a scientific manuscript is a skill taking years to perfect. This guide builds on advice passed along by mentors and routinely taught in my research group.

Developing Early Career Clinician Scientists

Developing early-career clinician-scientists has three distinct phases that each require tailored strategies. This download was originally created for the Association of Academic Surgery and is free to download here. While focused on surgeon-scientists, several of the principles are broadly transferable beyond surgery and beyond medicine.

Visual AbstrACT PRIMER

The visual abstract is an effective strategy to disseminate scientific research now adopted by >100 journals and institutions around the world. The primer provides an overview of its history, how to create one, and examples how it is being used.

Current WORK

My work is currently supported by grant funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R01, R18), the National Institutes for Health (R01), the US Department of Veteran Affairs and multiple private foundations. I aim to redesign healthcare delivery at three scales: the actually hospital building, regional networks of hospitals and finally neighborhoods. At each scale, I apply design principles and evaluate them quantitatively with the tools of health services research.

As the trend toward hospital mergers and consolidations continues, newly forming health care networks need to take advantage of their accumulated assets by implementing a redesign of service lines and process of care. This is both a design and health services research challenge.

What if everything we build & design was done with Health as a Priority? Much like policy makers adopted, “Health in All Policies” , what if architecture, planning and design communities systematically committed to “Health in All Design?” Although my work in architecture traditionally focused on healthcare facilities, clients are increasingly asking, “how can we make schools, stadiums, officer spaces, and housing healthier?” Follow the full Tweetorial outlined here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/health-all-design-andrew-m-ibrahim-md-msc/

The Health and Design Fellowship is designed to train Architects and Planners with the robust methods and health services research with the goal of making “Health a priority in everything we design.” More details about the fellowship can be found here.