Shepley Bulfinch recently hired health care planning and design leader Mario Vieira as a principal at the firm. With 25 years of experience as a healthcare architect, Vieira has worked with community hospital clients throughout the East Coast. His assignments included a master plan and award-winning patient care tower for Cape Cod Hospital, inpatient and ambulatory projects for Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, CT, and the Southcoast Hospitals Group.
Gary Wilkinson, who joined KLMK in 2004, was named principal consultant for the company. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Wilkinson manages projects at various facilities, including the Slidell Memorial Hospital, Princeton Baptist Medical Center, Southeast Alabama Medical Center and West Georgia Health System. In addition, he is leading the Transition Planning and Move Management Team for the Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children at Children’s of Alabama.
Robert A. Frank has been appointed to chief financial officer of the Weirton Medical Center. Frank, a health care industry veteran who has held various executive operational and financial management positions, is responsible for all finances including accounting, revenue cycle and budgeting.
WHR Architects recently promoted Joel Colwell, AIA, to principal. Colwell joined the firm in 2004 and spent the previous ten years on the client side as a facilities and project manager for a hospital in Louisiana.
Lawrence E. Wetzel, PE, chairman of the board of Air Innovations Inc., was recently honored with the HPAC Engineering magazine’s Engineer of the Year award. A licensed professional engineer in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California, Wetzel holds contractors’ licenses in those states as well as in Florida and Virginia. Additionally, he has seven U.S. patents and one European patent, with other patents pending in Europe and Canada.
KLMK Group Inc., a healthcare facility advisory firm, named Tim McCurley as principal consultant. McCurley joined KLMK in 2003. Based in Owensboro, Ky., he currently leads the KLMK onsite team dedicated to the Owensboro Medical Health System project.
KLMK Group Inc., a healthcare facility advisory firm, named Brad Durham as a principal consultant.
Durham, who joined KLMK in 2004, is currently leading the onsite team at Children’s of Alabama. Durham is based in Birmingham, Ala., where the new Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children, a 788,000 square foot replacement facility, is located.
Tonia Burnette joined Cannon Design as principal, and will serve as Healthcare Practice Leader for the firm’s Mid-Atlantic practice. With a career that spans more than 28 years in the programming, planning and designing of healthcare facilities, Burnette collaborates with clients, users and consultants to deliver total patient satisfaction and advance innovative healthcare delivery concepts.
C.W. Driver recently promoted Richard Freeark to vice president of operations for its San Diego region. Freeark, a 32-year construction industry veteran, will be responsible for the operational oversight and client satisfaction for the firm’s projects, including healthcare and education facilities in San Diego and Los Angeles.
Bringing more than 20 years of experience in healthcare design, Madhu Gresla was recently named business development director for the Chicago Healthcare practice of Cannon Design. In her new role, Gresla will team closely with other healthcare leaders in the Midwest region to implement strategies that support the firm’s objective of delivering excellence in project design and client satisfaction.
