Healthcare Design highlights Rising Star honoree
Architect Liyang Zhang was profiled in Healthcare Design magazine as part of their 2025 Rising Star awards program. Now in its eighth year, this national award recognizes emerging leaders who have made significant contributions to the healthcare design field through innovation, leadership, and a commitment to improving patient outcomes.
In the article, Liyang reflects on his path to healthcare design, his design approach, and how emerging technologies are shaping the field.
Rising Star honorees are selected from nominations from across the country. Liyang’s addition to this prestigious class acknowledges the wealth of experience he brings to bear with a broad spectrum of complex, engineering-intensive, and technology-driven healthcare projects. Liyang is driven by curiosity, grounded in detail, and believes that design is where data meets purpose.
The 2025 Rising Stars will be celebrated at the 2025 Healthcare Design Conference + Expo, taking place October 25-28, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri.
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