Esther M. Sternberg, MD (she/her/hers)

Research Director (AWCIM), Professor of Medicine, Director (IPWP)
Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson
Tucson, Arizona

Internationally recognized design and health pioneer, Dr. Esther Sternberg’s research takes mind-body science from molecules to built environments. A dynamic speaker and compassionate physician, Sternberg is Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine Research Director; Founding Director, University of Arizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance; Professor of Medicine, Psychology, Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture, and Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and was formerly a National Institutes of Health Senior Scientist and Section Chief. Sternberg has advised the U.S. Surgeon General, the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Green Building Council, International WELL Building Institute and the Vatican on design and health. Her wearable devices research with the GSA measuring office environments’ impacts on health, is informing post-COVID workspace design and re-entry. She has received the Federal Government’s highest awards and has authored numerous scholarly articles and books. Her popular book Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-being, helped re-ignite the design and health movement 21st century style. Her new book, WELL at WORK: Creating Wellbeing in Any Workspace (Little, Brown Spark; Sept. 2023), brings that science into the post-COVID era, and shows how embedding every domain of integrative health into workspaces will enhance workers' physical health, emotional wellbeing, and ultimately their productivity.

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Presentation(s):

• (H05) Impacts of Personality, Office Layout and Sound on Focus and Wellbeing

  Thursday, September 28, 2023
  2:00pm – 3:00pm US EDT