Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden

Certificate Programs

Healthcare Garden Design — Certificate of Merit Program

Faculty and Advisory Committee

Industry-leading instructors

Marni Barnes, ASLA, MSW, principal of Deva Designs, Palo Alto, California
Consults and creates therapeutic landscapes in public and private settings, drawing upon ten years experience as a psychotherapist and social worker practicing in the United States and Great Britain, as well as more than 25 years as a landscape designer.

Jack Carman, FASLA, president of Design for Generations, Medford, New Jersey
Specializes in creating therapeutic exterior environments for senior communities and healthcare facilities.

Nancy Chambers, director of Glass Garden, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York, New York
Registered horticultural therapist and director of Glass Garden at NYU Medical Center's Rusk Institute since 1986. A strong proponent of the therapeutic value of nature in healthcare environments. The many facets of Glass Garden's programs, including the award-winning Rusk Children's Play Garden, reflect her commitment to innovative and high-quality programming.

Mark Epstein, ASLA, senior landscape architect, ESA Adolfson, Seattle, Washington
Project manager or project landscape architect on hundreds of professional projects over the past 15 years. Has served as co-chair of the Therapeutic Garden Design Professional Practice Network for the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Gwenn Fried, Glass Garden, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York, New York
A horticultural therapist at the Glass Garden since 1997 and curator of the Rusk outdoor gardens.
Focuses on the anthropological uses of plants through history and weaves these lessons into classes for seniors and children.

Teresia M. Hazen, MEd, HTR, QMHP, registered horticultural therapist and coordinator of therapeutic gardens and horticultural therapy, Legacy Health Systems, Portland, Oregon
Directs Legacy Health System's Horticultural Therapy department in Portland, Oregon, overseeing six award-winning therapeutic gardens, with five more gardens in the planning stage.

Robert Hoover, ASLA, principal of HBLA, Inc., Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Specializes in senior living, healthcare, and residential projects, with HBLA designing more than 100 healthcare-related projects throughout the Northeast.

Clare Cooper Marcus, professor emerita, Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, and principal of Healing Landscapes, Berkley, California
Internationally recognized for pioneering research on the psychological and sociological aspects of architecture and landscape design, particularly urban open space.

Robin Moore, MCP, professor of landscape architecture and director of the Natural Learning Initiative,
School of Design, North Carolina State University
An international authority on the design of children's play and learning environments, user needs research and participatory public open space design.

Geoffrey Roehll, ASLA, senior vice president of the healthcare design team Hitchcock Design Group,
Naperville, Illinois
Since joining Hitchcock, has directed many landmark projects in the healthcare market. Now focused exclusively on healing environments and evidence-based design on each of their projects.

Gene Rothert, HTR, Horticultural Therapy Services, Chicago Botanic Garden
Manager of the Horticultural Therapy Services department at the Chicago Botanic Garden and author of The Enabling Garden: Creating Barrier-Free Gardens and co-author of Health Through Horticulture: A Guide for Using the Outdoor Garden for Therapeutic Outcomes

Roger Ulrich, Ph.D., professor, Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, and director, Center for Health Systems & Design, Texas A&M University
A behavioral scientist who teaches courses in the area of evidence-based design and conducts research on the effects of healthcare facilities and nature on medical outcomes.

Advisory Committee

Jack Carman, ASLA, President, Design for Generations, Medford, New Jersey

Nancy Chambers, Director, Rusk Institute Glass Garden, New York, New York

Mark Epstein, Adolfson Associates, Seattle

Karin Fleming, Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, Malvern, Pennsylvania

Teresia Hazen, HTR, Legacy Health Systems, Portland, Oregon

Robert Hoover, ASLA, HBLA, Inc., Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Clare Cooper Marcus, Professor Emeritus, University of California

Elizabeth Messer Diehl, ASLA, HTM, Austin, Texas

Patrick Mooney, ASLA, University of British Columbia

Robin Moore, North Carolina State University

Jean Kavanagh, FASLA, Texas Tech University

Diane Relf, Ph.D., Virginia Tech University

Gene Rothert, HTR, Horticultural Therapy Services, Chicago Botanic Garden

Candice Shoemaker, Ph.D., Kansas State University

Roger Ulrich, Ph.D., Director, Center for Health Systems & Design, Texas A&M University

Joanne Westphal, M.D., ASLA, Michigan State University

For additional information about the program, contact Amelia Simmons-Hurt at (847) 835-8293 or school@chicagobotanic.org.

The Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden is registered with the ASLA American Society of Landscape Architects as a provider of CPE Continuing Professional Education programs for landscape architects.