Penny Busch has joined CBRE Healthcare as a principal consultant in Dallas. Busch has more than 15 years of experience in the health care and commercial industry and has knowledge related to project scheduling, budgeting and procurement. Prior to joining CBRE Healthcare, Busch served as a senior program manager at Parkland Health & Hospital System. She holds a Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Tim Schaefer has rejoined CBRE Healthcare as a principal consultant in Richmond, Va. With more than 20 years of health care experience, Schaefer has worked on both the owner and consultant side of project management. Prior to joining CBRE Healthcare, Schaefer served as director of facility construction and planning at the Carle Foundation Hospital. In his role at CBRE Healthcare, he provides project advisory solutions on multiple projects in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.
Matt Hufnagle joins CBRE Healthcare as managing director of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions. Hufnagle has more than 22 years of project and program management experience in the health care industry. In his role as managing director, Hufnagle will ensure that CBRE health care consultants are delivering value-added solutions in the delivery of their capital projects. Prior to joining CBRE Healthcare, Hufnagle was a partner/regional vice president at Hammes Company.
TeamHealth Holdings, a provider of outsourced physician staffing solutions for hospitals, has appointed Miles S. Snowden, M.D., MPH, as the company’s chief medical officer, effective Sept. 15, 2014. Snowden is replacing Gar LaSalle, M.D., who retired from the position earlier this year.
SmithGroupJJR has elected Joyce Polhamus, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, EDAC, to its board of directors. Polhamus is co-leader of the firm’s San Francisco Health Studio. During her 18 years with SmithGroupJJR, Polhamus has led a number of health care projects, including campus and interior master plans, renovations and new facilities for ambulatory, acute and post-acute care.
Eric Johnson has been promoted to the newly created position of executive managing director of Transwestern’s national health care platform. The firm’s health care specialists provide agency leasing, tenant advisory, property management, capital markets and development services for this particular client base.
Stalco Construction has promoted Amber M. Gillen to project manager. Gillen joined Stalco as an assistant project manager in 2012 and has since managed several significant health care projects in the New York area. Gillen’s responsibilities include complete project management in pre-construction, delivery and close-out phases.
The American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) has announced that Ian C. Sinnett, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, vice president/regional leader of health care for HOK, has earned his board certificate in health care architecture. Sinnett recently passed an accreditation examination, which assesses the knowledge and understanding of architects who practice as health care specialists. He joins the ranks of more than 400 ACHA colleagues in the U.S.
HGA Architects and Engineers (HGA) hired Alyssa Scholz, IIDA, in July as principal and director of interior design in California. She will build the firm’s interior design services across the health care, higher education and public/corporate practice groups for the Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento offices. Scholz has more than 20 years of interior design experience nationally.
Carl Haines has been named director of special projects at Level 10 Construction. Haines will focus on special projects throughout San Diego, including tenant improvements, renovations and modernizations within Level 10 Construction’s core markets: corporate, health care, education, entertainment, hospitality, technology and life sciences.
