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January 6, 2012 (MMD Newswire) -- The revered architect and industry leader Derek Parker has been awarded the Lifetime Leadership Award by the International Academy for Design & Health. The award, which recognizes Derek Parker's visionary career and an ongoing, lifelong commitment to enhancing the health, wellbeing and quality of people's lives through his dedication to healthcare design, was presented at a prestigious ceremony during the 7th Design & Health World Congress & Exhibition in Boston.

Parker lead the global Healthcare Design Firm of Anshen + Allen before joining Aditazz as Interim CEO and now Senior Advisor. Derek has become one of the foremost global architects in evidence-based healthcare design. He co-founded the Center for Healthcare Design, and co-created the 'Fable Hospital', as a model for estimating the value of design impacts on healthcare operations and outcomes.

Derek continues to influence and drive big ideas through the Aditazz Innovation Center that provides solutions for improved patient care outcomes.

Aditazz is a design-build firm pioneering advances in technology and techniques that incorporate operational modeling and structure fabrication/assembly as critical parts of their Nextgen design-build process. Learn more at http://www.aditazz.com

Contact: info@aditazz.com or 650-492-7000

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