Tracks at PDC Summit
The PDC Summit features session tracks designed to reflect the evolving needs of our field. Customize your PDC Summit experience by choosing sessions that address seven overarching subject matter areas. Create the right balance for your unique role and interests.
Explore sessions from each track:
Clinical Perspectives in Design
Discover how the built environment influences patient care, staff performance, and clinical outcomes. This track highlights lessons learned from care delivery settings, evidence-informed design strategies, workflow optimization, and emerging approaches that connect clinical needs with design solutions.
Compliance & Policy
Stay ahead of evolving regulations, standards, and accreditation requirements. This track explores codes, compliance strategies, policy updates, and practical approaches for navigating the regulatory landscape from planning and design through construction, occupancy, and operations.
Effective Collaboration
Great projects depend on strong partnerships. Sessions in this track focus on interdisciplinary teamwork, stakeholder engagement, communication strategies, integrated project delivery, and the collaborative approaches that help diverse teams move complex healthcare projects from vision to reality.
Financial Implications of PDC
Explore the business side of healthcare planning, design, and construction. Sessions in this track examine capital investment, operational efficiency, project delivery strategies, lifecycle costs, sustainability initiatives, and the financial decisions that shape successful healthcare facilities.
Impactful Interior Environments
Examine how interior environments shape the experience of patients, families, and care teams. Sessions address human-centered design, behavioral health environments, healing spaces, furnishings, wayfinding, environmental psychology, and strategies for creating spaces that promote well-being and engagement.
Research, Design & Outcomes
Curated by The Center for Health Design
Explore the latest research connecting health facility design decisions to measurable outcomes. This track showcases evidence-based design, post-occupancy evaluations, performance measurement, and innovative research that helps organizations translate data and insights into better healthcare environments and experiences.
Safe, Secure Environments
Learn how organizations are creating resilient, reliable, and secure care settings. Topics include emergency preparedness, workplace violence prevention, infection prevention, infrastructure reliability, environmental safety, security planning, and risk mitigation across the healthcare environment.