Itzel Lozada
Itzel Lozada, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP — Senior Project Architect specializing in healthcare design at Woolpert in Orlando and 2024 president of AIA Orlando.
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Sep 25, 2026
Rhonda HammondHOST
Would you take us back to that time and talk about what you experienced, not as an architect, but simply as a patient trying to recover?
Itzel LozadaGUEST
Um, it was August 19th, uh, 2006, a date one never forgets, uh, when my life changed in an instant.
Itzel LozadaGUEST
One moment I was standing with my family, and the next I was on the ground after a truck's rim struck the back of both my legs.
Itzel LozadaGUEST
Um, I did not feel the pain immediately, but I do remember the distant voices and not understanding, uh, what was happening.
19 MINS LATER
Keith LashleyGUEST
But for men, most men who, um, have not been in a hospital bed really don't understand how important the little things are.