Janis Cruz recently joined ETC Building & Design, an architecture firm specializing in health care, biotech and seismic retrofits, as the director of project management. Cruz has more than 17 years of experience in project management, seven of which have been focused on health care design and construction projects at Scripps Health and Rady Children’s Hospital, both in San Diego.
PerfectServe named Todd Cozzens to the firm’s board of directors. Bringing more than 25 years of healthcare technology and services expertise to the company, Cozzens previously co-founded and led Picis, a high-acuity information system company. It was his strategic vision of information systems for the high-acuity care areas of hospitals that drove the company to a 50 percent annual growth rate over a 10-year span and to more than 2,100 hospital clients.
John Michael Currie, vice president of the Baskervill healthcare group, was elected by the American Institute of Architects to its College of Fellows. With more than 35 years of experience dedicated exclusively to healthcare facility planning, Currie has been recognized as one of the leading healthcare industry experts in the nation.
Dustin O’Brien, AIA has been appointed a shareholder and principal of Wilson Architectural Group. O’Brien joined Wilson Architectural Group in 2003 and was named an associate in 2009. He has managed numerous leading projects for prominent healthcare and higher education clients in the Houston area.
Cannon Design promoted Richard J. Kahn, AIA, LEED AP, to principal of the firm. With more than 20 years of experience, Kahn will continue his responsibilities of expanding Cannon’s science and technology, healthcare, and general practice markets.
PerfectServe named Michelle Piel vice president of sales for its East Central Region. In her new position, Piel will offer executive sales leadership to support business development and support the company’s strategic clinical direction.
Lumidigm, a multispectral imaging biometrics company, announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Lumidigm Board member Mark Shermetaro as CEO. Lumidigm Co-founder, Chairman and CEO Bob Harbour will stay on as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective February 1.
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.
