Khatereh Hadi researches healthcare design at Georgia Tech where she is a Ph.D. candidate in Evidence-based design and a member of SimTigrate Design Lab. She is interested in creating better healthcare environments for patients, staff and families through design and research. She received a BArch and MArch from Art University of Isfahan, Iran. Her area of interest is computation, simulation and optimization for designing healthcare settings to improve patient’s safety and satisfaction, as well as staff’s performance by looking at different design parameters.

Recently, Khatereh has been focused on studying intensive care units, trying to understand how spatial characteristic such as visibility and accessibility vary in different architectural layouts and how different design parameters change these spatial characteristics. She has also been involved in major research projects about impact of design in creating better lighting environments for patients and nurses.