Faculty - Functional Program Workshop

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Location: Steelcase WorkLife Center

4 Columbus Circle

New York, New York, 10019

Early Bird Registration:  $465

After August 21,2015: $565 
 

AGENDA
 

WORKSHOP FACULTY

Thomas M. Jung, RA

​Thomas

 Jung has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare design field, with a primary focus on regulatory compliance and coordination. Tom directed the New York State Department of Health’s Certificate of Need Program in varying capacities for 16 years while overseeing the statewide development of all state-licensed health care facilities, retiring in 2011. 

Tom is a founding member of the Center for Health’s Environmental Standards Council, and attributes that first and ongoing experience as a major influence on the nature of his communication with the designers and providers seeking state approval.  He has been recognized by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the New York Society for Health Planning, and Healthcare Design Magazine as a national health care professional.  Tom was recently appointed to the Center for Health Design’s Board of Directors. He has also been intimately involved with development of the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities since 1997, including Facilities Guidelines Institute board membership between 2003 and 2014.  Tom served as CEO of the Facility Guidelines Institute under a one-year consulting contract through 2014.  He presently consults with a select number of clients on a limited basis.

 

Richard S. Thomas, AIA, MBA
Richard S. Thomas, who retired in 2014 as Senior Director for Capital Planning for Weill Cornell

Medical College, now teaches, lectures, and writes based on his 47-year career in health care and education. Trained in architecture at Pratt Institute and business at New York University, and in both professional practice and institutional executive roles, Thomas led many programming, planning, design, and construction projects at urban and suburban hospitals, and large, complex programs at academic medical centers in New York, including Presbyterian Hospital’s major modernization program in the 1980’s, Hospital for Special Surgery’s modernizations and addition over the FDR Drive in the 1990’s, and Weill Cornell Medical College’s strategic Weill Greenberg Center and Belfer Research building from 2002 to 2012.
 
Richard is a founding member of the Center for Health Design’s Environmental Standards Council and has served as its chair since the early 2000’s.  He is an Associate Professor of Public Health at Columbia University’s MPH programs, and lecturer at New York School of Interior Design’s Health Care MA program.
Thomas resides with his wife, founder and President of Road to Achievement, LLC, an educational consulting practice, in New Canaan, Connecticut and serves on the board of the New Canaan Preservation Alliance (an organization which is dedicated to preserving the unique architectural and environmental characteristics of the town) and on other volunteer service committees.

 

Alberto Salvatore, AIA NCARB, EDAC
Alberto Salvatore is an Associate Principal and Healthcare Practice Leader at Perkins + Will,

Boston.  He has over 30 years of experience in all phases of healthcare design. He has successfully led teams nationally and internationally on health care projects large and small.  His participation on the Healthcare Guidelines Review Committee for the Facilities Guidelines Institute led to the incorporation of his definition of the Environment of Care in the 2006 guidelines. He continues to be involved in the development of the 2018 Guidelines.  Alberto was a key participant in defining the base knowledge for Evidence Based Design.  He participated in the development of the original EDAC Examination, and continues to participate in its continuous improvement.  He sits on the EDAC Advisory Council and Environmental Standards Council for the Center for Health Design.

 

Jerry Smith, FASLA, EDAC, LEED AP
Jerry Smith trained as a landscape architect and an architect, is Owner/Principal at

SMITH/GreenHealth Consulting, LLC, based in Columbus, Ohio and licensed in New York.  He has been involved in healthcare design since 1988 and in sustainable healthcare (green heath) since 2003.  In 2010, Jerry was inducted into the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Jerry’s impact on the healthcare design industry is evidenced in the significant appointments and contributions he has made to transformational industry organizations, including the Environmental Standards Council of The Center for Health Design, the Steering Committee of the Green Guide for Health Care, the Technical Core and Human Health & Well-being Committees of the Sustainable Sites Initiative and the Board of Directors of the Ohio Chapter of the US Green Building Council.  Jerry is also on adjunct faculty at Ball State University, where he was appointed the 2010 Faculty Fellow in Landscape Architecture.

 

Cathy Dolan-Schweitzer
Cathy Dolan is president of Health Well Done, Cathy’s mission is to share her knowledge and

experience of healthcare project management with a wider audience to lead healthcare into the future. 

She is the “Healthcare Project Coach” and has developed a 3-step integrated approach to managing healthcare projects. Although her skill set is vast her greatest expertise revolves around the world of creating patient centered environments and seeing things through a patient’s eyes. She has a strong belief in Integrated Medicine (traditional Western science + alternative therapies) and believes it will play a big part in Healthcare. She is currently writing a book called “DONE” The Clinical and Construction Guide to Patient Centered Environments.