2024 Tradewell Fellows Embrace Opportunities for Healthcare Design and Research
Page, a leading architecture and engineering design firm, named Ruben Zarate Jr. and Kimia Erfani as its 2024 Tradewell Fellows. Celebrating its 27th year, the Tradewell Fellowship program positions tomorrow’s healthcare planners and designers for rapid career advancement and leadership through immersive participation in healthcare design projects and the opportunity to explore a healthcare design research question in their area of interest.
Based in Page’s Dallas office, Ruben Zarate Jr. received a Master of Architecture degree from Texas A&M and a certificate in health systems and design. He is interested in how healthcare environments can heal their occupants through evidence-based design, and his Tradewell research project focuses on design in the outpatient environment. Zarate says, “The Tradewell Fellowship offers me the unique opportunity to pursue my passion for designing healthcare spaces that improve the wellbeing of users and allows me to join a rich history of fellows committed to mentoring and collaborating.”