Lifetime Leadership Award Winner 2014

Chair of Lifetime Leadership Award
Prof Alan Dilani
Founder and CEO, International Academy for Design & Health





Criteria
Awarded to a healthcare leader and visionary who has shown an ongoing, lifelong commitment to enhancing the health, wellbeing and quality of people’s lives through their dedication to healthcare design. The award recognises the human and personal qualities needed to push back the boundaries of progress and inspire future generations.


Prof George Mann
Winner

Prof George J. Mann AIA

Nomination

George J. Mann, AIA is a Professor of Architecture and The Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA Endowed Professor of Health Facilities Design at Texas A&M University. He has a national and international reputation as a leader in health facilities design. He has had over 48 years of pioneering experience in the field of architecture for health through his architectural research, teaching, consulting, and practice. Professor Mann has also published numerous articles, and research reports, giving presentations of his findings on both a natural and international level.

He has organized multiple national and international conferences. Professor Mann has served as a faculty member at Kansas State University, Columbia University, University of Tokyo, Nagoya City University, The Technion (Israel Institute of Architecture), and Texas A&M University. He has guided the architectural education of over 4,000 students, many of whom now lead the architecture for health field across the globe. Professor Mann has attracted over $3.5 million in sponsored grants and research contracts to Texas A&M University.

After graduating from the Columbia University School of Architecture with a Bachelor of Architecture, Professor Mann completed a Master of Science in Architecture for Health, (awarded jointly by the Columbia University School of Architecture and School of Public Health). While at Columbia University, he was awarded a William Kinne Traveling Fellowship to study health facilities in Europe and the Middle East. Professor Mann apprenticed with I.M. Pei and Associates, and Skidmore Owings and Merrill Architects in New York City. In 1963, he founded George J. Mann and Associates, Planners, and Architects and in 1971 founded RPDResource Planning and Development.

In 1999, together with Dr. Yasushi Nagasawa of the University of Tokyo, Professor Mann founded the Global University Programs in Healthcare Architecture (GUPHA). He was elected to be the first president of GUPHA. Professor Mann was one of the founders of Texas A&M University’s Health Industry Advisory Council in 2002. He is on the editorial advisory board of Medical Construction and Design and Healthcare Design magazines. Professor Mann has been involved in over 700 facility projects world-wide including:

• University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas;
• Children’s Memorial Medical Center in Chicago;
• Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas;
• Children’s Medical Center in Dallas;
• St. Joseph Health Center in Bryan, Texas;
• Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Texas;
• Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, Israel;
• Ha’emek Medical Center in Afula, Israel;
• Flying Eye Hospital;
• Mercy Hospital Ships;
• Rehabilitation Center for Landmine Victims in Leon, Nicaragua;
• Center for Medical Mission Training in Las Cruces, Guatemala;
• Children’s Hospital for the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta;
• McGill University Health Centre, Montreal;
• Houston Hospice;
• Institute of Research and Rehabilitation, Houston, Texas;
• American Mission Hospital, Bahrain;
• Family Practice Center, Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas;
• Student Health Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas;
• Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village, Brenham, Texas;
• Emergency Response Vehicle/ Ambulance;
• Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, Boston, MA;
• Save Our Streets Ministries, Bryan, Texas;
• Scotty’s House, Bryan, Texas;
• Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel;
• Project Mandy, Bryan, Texas;
• Mansfield Medical Center, Mansfield, Texas;
• Hatfield Hospital, Hertfordshire, UK;
• Women’s Shelter in Hempstead, Texas:
• Twin City Mission Homeless Shelter, Bryan, Texas;
• Cardiovascular Diagnostic Center, West Monroe, Louisiana;
• Destination Healthcare: A Sustainable Resort and Hospital, Dubai;
• Isaiah’s Place-Equestrian Learning and Retreat Center for the Deaf;
• New Orleans Development Authority hospital design, New Orleans, Louisiana;
• National Taiwan University Cancer Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan;
• Songamble Hospital, Nkololo, Bariadi, Tanzania;
• Charles E. Schmidt Medical Center, Boca Raton, Florida;
• Eye Hospital in Puyang, China;
• Nemours Ambulatory Healthcare Center in New Jersey; and
• Hainan China Rehabilitation Cancer Center.

Professor Mann has also worked with the World Health Organization and the United Nations Development Program. Since 1974 he has been a member of the International Union of Architects/Public Health Group and served on its executive committee. Mann was the Director of the UIA/PHG from 2012-2013. Since 1970, he has been a member of American Academy of Architecture for Health and in recent years, a member of its leadership Board. He has also mentored 21 AIA/AHA Fellows.

Professor Mann has lectured on health facilities design at various academic and research institutes including: McGill University; Georgia Tech; Clemson University; City University of New York; Washington University; Tel Aviv University; Hong Kong Hospital Authority; University of Florence; Architectural Institute of Korea and Han Yan University; Thessaloniki University; Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Monterrey Technological Institute, Daniel Center in Genoa, Tsingua University; Tongji University; and University of New South Wales Professor George J. Mann received the high honor of being invited to deliver the Texas A&M University Lecture in 1989. The title of that lecture was, "People, Resources, and Architecture: 21st Century Challenges.” He was also the recipient of the former President George H. W. Bush Excellence in Service Award in 2003. He received an award in 2004 from the AIA Academy of Architecture for Inspiring Young Minds in Healthcare Architecture. In 2007, he also received an ‘Award of Appreciation’ at the International Conference and Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design and Construction (PDC), cosponsored by ASHE/AHA and AIA/AAH.

In 2010, George Mann was awarded the 1st Dean J. Thomas Regan Award for Interdisciplinary Research, Design, and Teaching from the College of Architecture, Texas A&M University. Professor Mann was the recipient of a Faculty Development Award in 2010 and was appointed as a member of the Steering Committee of the CIB Task Force.

Professor Mann continues to teach and organizes an "Architecture for Health” lecture series for the Spring and Fall semesters of each school year. This lecture series started out as an elective course and has been so successful it has become a required course for those students seeking to earn a certificate in health systems and design. George Mann is the heart of the health design program at the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University. He is an inspiration to the students, faculty, and staff.