What Designers Can Learn About End Of Life By Looking At Birth

Chris Waugh

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Through his perspective as a design innovator, Chris Waugh sees health care systems in whole person terms and believes good design happens when empathy, creativity and community converge. Relating these principles to the end of life journey, he maps it along physical, intellectual and emotional dimensions to reveal how we might better treat dying as a part of living.

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As Chief Design and Innovation Officer at Sutter Health, Chris Waugh leads a multidisciplinary team in the cultivation of inventive approaches to enhancing the patient experience and improving health care processes. Chris has years of experience creating cultures of collaboration, including a decade of entrepreneurial leadership for IDEO before joining One Medical Group, where he launched numerous experiments in the areas of digital health, chronic disease management and integrative health.

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