Earlier this year, HEALTHCARE DESIGN launched a public nomination period on the magazine's Web site (healthcaredesignmagazine.com) and asked our readership to tell us who they thought were the most influential people in healthcare design in 2010.

A shortlist of 50 names was established following the nomination process from which the final voting took place. The final votes were cast by our Editorial Board, our publishing partners at The Center for Health Design, and the HEALTHCARE DESIGN publishing team, allowing us to arrive at a final list of 25 individuals.

On this list, you'll find a veritable who's who of the healthcare design industry, from architects and interior designers to academics and researchers. While there are always worthy names that are left out of any such list, we do feel that these 25 people are fairly representative of today's best and brightest, and we congratulate those individuals who made the final list-surely one of the most heartening and flattering forms of praise is recognition from one's peers.

If you find yourself disagreeing with the results, we encourage you to watch these pages (and your inbox) for instructions on how to vote in next year's poll.

1 Bill Rostenberg
1 Bill Rostenberg

2 Robin Guenther
2 Robin Guenther

3 D. Kirk Hamilton
3 D. Kirk Hamilton

4 David Allison
4 David Allison

6 Rosalyn Cama
6 Rosalyn Cama

8 Debra Levin
8 Debra Levin

9 Jain Malkin
9 Jain Malkin

12 Debajyoti Pati
12 Debajyoti Pati

13 George J. Mann
13 George J. Mann

15 Anjali Joseph
15 Anjali Joseph

19 Derek Parker
19 Derek Parker

22 Tama Duffy Day
22 Tama Duffy Day

  • 1. Bill Rostenberg

    Principal, Director of Research, Anshen+Allen, a Part of Stantec Architecture, San Francisco, CA

  • 2. Robin Guenther

    Principal, Perkins+Will, New York, NY

  • 3. D. Kirk Hamilton

    Professor, A&M University, College Station, TX

  • 4. David Allison

    Professor/Director, Clemson University Graduate Studies in Architecture + Health, Clemson, SC

  • 5. Bruce Komiske

    Chief, New Hospital Design and Construction, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

  • 6. Rosalyn Cama

    President, CAMA Incorporated, New Haven, CT

  • 7. Craig Zimring

    Professor of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  • 8. Debra Levin

    CEO, The Center for Health Design, Concord, CA

  • 9. Jain Malkin

    President, Jain Malkin Inc., La Jolla, CA

  • 10. Roger S. Ulrich

    Director of the Center for Health Systems and Design, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

  • 11. Bruce Raber

    Vice President, Stantec Architecture, Canada

  • 12. Debajyoti Pati

    Director of Research, HKS Architects, Dallas, TX

  • 13. George J. Mann

    Professor, The Skaggs-Sprague Endowed Chair of Health Facilities Design, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

  • 14. Jane Rohde

    Principal, JSR Associates, Ellicot City, MD

  • 15. Anjali Joseph

    Director of Research, The Center for Health Design, Boston, MA

  • 16. Craig Beale

    Executive Vice-President, HKS, Inc, Dallas

  • 17. Sheila Cahnman

    Group Vice President, HOK, Chicago

  • 18. Mardelle Shepley

    Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

  • 19. Derek Parker

    Director Emeritus, Anshen+Allen, a Part of Stantec Architecture, San Francisco, CA

  • 20. Cheryl Herbert

    President, Dublin Methodist Hospital, Dublin, OH

  • 21. Kimberly Montague

    Director of Design Consultation Services, Planetree, Novi, MI

  • 22. Tama Duffy Day

    Principal, Perkins+Will, Washington, DC

  • 23. Blair L. Sadler

    Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, La Jolla, CA

  • 24. Michael Graves

    Founder/Principal, Michael Graves Design Group, Princeton, NJ

  • 25. Richard L. Miller

    President, Earl Swensson Associates, Nashville, TN

Healthcare Design 2010 December;10(12):26-29