Principal, Director of Healthcare
Andy has dedicated his 30 year career to inventive healthcare facility design, with a specialization in cancer care. His designs depart from traditional solutions and instead seek to enrich the patient experience, improve caregiver effectiveness and maximize energy efficiency. He is well respected among clients for his pragmatic ingenuity, and his collaborative way of leading healthcare providers to innovative yet realistic design decisions. Andy’s creativity and leadership have resulted in many awards and recognition for EwingCole. “I love solving the spatial and technological puzzles of healthcare construction in ways that delight patients and the people who care for them.”
Principal
With 30 years experience in the planning, design, and coordination of healthcare, government, and institutional projects, John also continues to lead clients in achieving a high level of quality while meeting functional, budget, and schedule goals.
Principal
John Currie has had a distinguished 35 year career dedicated exclusively to health care facility planning programming and design. His work has ranged from community hospitals to academic medical centers to specialty hospitals such as children’s hospitals and cancer care facilities. John’s work has won national design awards from Modern Healthcare magazine and the American Institute of Architects. He has been privileged to work in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. John holds advanced degrees in Architecture and Business Administration. His 2007 book on the history of health care Architecture was published by the American Institute of Architects Press. “Hospitals should be places of Hope not places of Doubt.”
Principal
Natalie designs complex, highly specialized healthcare environments. Her design experience includes system-wide strategic/master planning, replacement facilities, and freestanding health centers. Ms. Miovski works closely with, not only physicians, staff, patients, and administration, but also with industry leaders to understand the work process, current and future trends and specific aspirations of each stakeholder. “Serious focus on ‘staff-friendly’ design not only elevates patient care, satisfaction, and outcomes but also greatly improves a facilities bottom line.”
Principal
For John and his clients, it is the merging of responsibility and accountability. Each project stakeholder has goals and desired outcomes that can easily become lost in the shuffle of decisions and tasks required to occur on a project. Simplifying this process enables everyone to focus on what they do best while collaborating in an environment that marries the best of business and art. Whether it is a small 5000 square foot retro-fit or 400,000 replacement tower and everything in between John has successfully orchestrated teams of owners, users, builders and design professionals to deliver outstanding results day in and day out. “As architects we have an opportunity through the design process to facilitate consensus and transformational change in support of the care and healing of people.”
Principal
Jim brings his leadership expertise to the management of the largest and most complex projects in EwingCole’s Healthcare practice. Drawing on twenty-eight years of experience in planning, design, and construction technology and a hands-on, roll-up-the sleeves approach, he forges the contributions of each professional into the effective team needed to move a project to completion. A Principal at EwingCole, Jim has been with the firm for fifteen years.
Healthcare Planner
Mary’s superior interpersonal skills and thoughtful analysis have consistently led clients to design solutions that are extraordinary in their simplicity, economy and beauty. An experienced health care planner with a particular interest in the design and operations of Emergency Departments, Mary also excels at the integration of medical technologies in the design of comforting spaces for patients. Mary holds a Bachelor of Marketing with honors from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor of Architecture degree with honors from Drexel University. She was the recipient of the Stewardson Thesis Silver Prize from Drexel University. “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”
Principal
"Healthcare is a serious business and healthcare construction can have its tense moments, but good people, good organization and good humor can produce great results."
Director of Design
Saul believes the fundamental driver for designing healthcare facilities lies in the notion of “kindness to strangers”. Healthcare facilities serve individuals undergoing extreme stress due to illness. Their caregivers perform some of the most demanding jobs in our society. To Saul, addressing the well-being of these “strangers” through the design of functional yet elegant and soothing environments is one of the most gratifying roles in the building industry. He brings his training in architecture and landscape architecture to the design process in order to create a seamless experience between the exterior landscape and image of the building to the interior public and medical spaces. He has designed a variety healthcare projects ranging from a new 300,000 square foot hospital pavilion and a new front entrance, to the a new center for medical education . “A facility’s spatial quality, both functional and visual, echoes in the patient’s and caregiver’s mind, from the first glimpse of the building on the site, to the moment of arrival, and into the smallest exam room. The most exciting part of my role as designer is to walk with them.”
Design Principal
As a Design Principal of the firm, Fady brings considerable design leadership skills to a wide range of healthcare projects. His passion for architecture and innovative spirit are evident in his ability to lead project teams and inspire clients to ideal design solutions for each project. He has taught architectural design and theory at the University of Pennsylvania and continues to serve as a visiting critic at universities across the region. In addition to his design expertise, Fady has attained an advanced degree in Business Administration, focusing in Real Estate Finance and Marketing, to better understand the economic imperatives that drive healthcare facilities development.