Ian Hargraves PhD is a designer, shared decision making researcher, and assistant professor of medicine with the Mayo Clinic Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit in Rochester Minnesota. Originally from New Zealand where he trained as an industrial designer at Victoria University Wellington, Ian holds a Masters and Ph.D. in design from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. At the Mayo Clinic, Ian leads the human-centered design of shared decision making interventions developed to support the conversations in which patients and clinicians think, talk, and feel through medical decisions together.

Interviewed by Moyez Jiwa