Lauren Janney of Lens Joins Emergency Medicine Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

BOSTON, Mass. – Principal Strategist Lauren Janney, EDAC, LEED AP, with Lens, a creative consulting studio of Shepley Bulfinch, has joined the Emergency Medicine Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, for a three-year term which began October 2017.

The board provides advice to support the expansion of an improved patient- and family centered emergency medicine department and the delivery of high-quality, personalized and efficient care at BWH. For more than a decade, Janney has focused her career on helping organizations leverage data analytics, visual thinking, service design thinking and implementation science to drive innovation in healthcare delivery. As the studio leader for Lens, she helps teams create innovative new service lines, build meaningful experiences and increase collaboration among multidisciplinary teams by engaging frontline staff in the design process.

Janney was invited to join the Emergency Medicine Advisory Board at BWH because of her experience in designing healthcare spaces, including emergency rooms. Comprised of influential and esteemed individuals, members of the Emergency Medicine Advisory Board are committed to advancing the hospital’s strategic priorities in emergency medicine at BWH. They provide feedback to Michael VanRooyen, M.D., MPH, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and his faculty on current and new initiatives and serve as ambassadors to the community.

Janney not only leads Lens, she was instrumental in its creation. In addition to the Emergency Medicine Advisory Board at BWH, Janney has brought design thinking to leading healthcare organizations across the country, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Yale New Haven Health System, Partners HealthCare and Mayo Clinic. She sits on the marketing committee for the New England Society for Healthcare Strategy and is a core team member at the Lean Construction Institute’s New England chapter. She is the first design practitioner to complete the advanced Lean training certificate program at Virginia Mason Institute.