Board of Regents

Deborah Smith, AIA, FACHA, LEED AP BD&C is a registered architect with more than 30 years of healthcare planning and design experience. She is a Senior Medical Planner and Associate Principal with Flad Architects in Tampa, Florida. Prior to joining Flad, she worked as the Director of Planning at the University of Maryland Medical Center as well as for other healthcare focused architectural firms. This diverse experience has provided her a different perspective toward planning and shaping the client’s vision.

Deb served as chair of the ACHA Exam Committee in 2020 and 2021. She also is involved with the Academy of Architecture for Health and on the FGI Health Guidelines Revisions Committee.

**Past President**
David J. Allison
FAIA, FACHA

David Allison, FAIA, FACHA is an Alumni Distinguished Professor and has served as the Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture + Health [A+H] at Clemson University since 1990. The A+H program at Clemson is nationally recognized for the quality of its focused curriculum and consistent emphasis on design excellence within the discipline of healthcare architecture. It is committed to the integration of innovative design with academic scholarship and research in healthy community planning and design and healthcare environments, and it has won numerous national awards for its work, and the work of its students, under David Allison’s direction.

Professor Allison is a registered architect in South Carolina and North Carolina, and is NCARB certified. His scholarly focus is centered on healthy community planning and design, design prototyping and research related to health care environments. He has served on numerous national health environments design award juries and is a founding member and Fellow of ACHA and the Coalition for Health Environments Research. He is also an active member of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, where he served a three-year term as an AIA/AAH National Advisory Board member. He was selected in 2007 as one of “Twenty Making a Difference” nationally by Healthcare Design Magazine and identified again in 2009, 2010 and 2012 by a national poll conducted by the magazine as “one of the most influential people in healthcare design.” Design Intelligence Magazine named him one of the nation’s 30 Most Admired Design Educators in 2013-14.

President-Elect
Ryan Turner
AIA, ACHA

Ryan Turner, AIA, ACHA, EDAC, as a Principal Architect with DSGW, his 24 years of practice have been focused on helping rural and Indigenous communities. Living and working in northern Minnesota, Ryan has a passion for finding ways to leverage evidenced-based design to find creative solutions that address the unique challenges that small, rural communities face. Well-designed spaces result from listening and exploring ways to improve outcomes, enhance the well-being of team members, and provide the best possible experience for families. Ryan serves on the Healthcare Guidelines Revisions Committee for the FGI as a member of the Hospital Document Group and the Rural Health Topic Group. Ryan is also the current chair of the Exam Committee for the College and serves on the Planning committee for the Summer Leadership Summit.

Treasurer
Molly M. Scanlon, PhD
FAIA, FACHA

Molly M. Scanlon, PhD, FAIA, FACHA is an Environmental Health Scientist, as well as a licensed and certified healthcare architect currently conducting research at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. She has 25+ years of planning and design experience for healthcare settings to create environments benefiting the health, safety, and welfare of patients, nurses, physicians, and staff. Dr. Scanlon’s work and research involves examining the built environment’s impact on human health with an emphasis on preventing illness, injury, or death from building systems during construction activities.

Dr. Scanlon contributed as an author and content developer for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC)’s Preventing Legionnaires’ Disease: A Training on Legionella Water Management Programs. She is a leading scholar about disease cases associated with water quality and construction activities in healthcare and community settings. Additionally, Dr. Scanlon served as the American Institute of Architects appointed chair for the COVID-19 Alternative Care Sites Task Force during the pandemic response for which she was honored as an AIA Citizen Architect, the HCD Mag. Top10 2021 MVP, and with a national AIA Presidential Citation. She is a Fellow in both the American Institute of Architects and the American College of Healthcare Architects.

Ann H. Adams, AIA, FACHA, Principal at Davis Partnership, is responsible for programming, master planning, design and construction of healthcare projects ranging in size from small critical access hospitals to large, multi-million-dollar hospitals. Ms. Adams has 35 years of experience in the healthcare industry completing renovations, additions and replacement facilities for hospitals throughout the country.

Prior to joining Davis Partnership, Ms. Adams practiced architecture in many different environments: She was a Senior Project Executive with a national program management firm serving as the Owner’s Representative and liaison between the owner and the design and construction teams; an Associate Vice President and Office Director of a national healthcare architectural firm serving major teaching, community and rural hospitals; and spent six years as the senior in-house architect at Memorial Hospital, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a 364-bed hospital and was an active participate in two JCAHO surveys. As a certified member of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA), Ann strives to work towards the improvement of healthcare architecture on behalf of the public through better built environments.

Kyle Basilius, AIA, ACHA, EDAC, NCARB, Principal at Parkin, brings nearly two decades of experience in planning, master planning, and programming healthcare construction projects across the globe. His expertise has been honed through working closely with clinicians and clients in the United States, Denmark, and Canada.

Kyle’s involvement in the healthcare design community is far-reaching, including serving on the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z8000 Ambulatory Care/Procedures working group and as chair of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) Continuing Competency Committee. Additionally, Kyle is the technical lead architect for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) and World Food Programme’s (WFP) INITIATE2 project, demonstrating his commitment to innovative healthcare solutions on a global scale.

Dan Delk is the Market Sector Leader for Healthcare and Principal for Erdman. He has 20 years’ experience as medical planner, project manager, and project architect for a variety of healthcare projects from small equipment replacements to campus expansions. He has projects throughout the country from Chicago to Atlanta and from Baltimore to Dallas and strongly supports a team effort surrounding collaboration to bring a project to a successful conclusion.

Dan has been an active member of ACHA since becoming certified 10 years ago by serving on the College’s Certification Committee, then as co-chair for the committee then as board liaison for the committee. Dan loves providing encouragement and support to help others to become a certified member of the college.

An accomplished programmer, planner and designer of academic medical centers, specialty centers and community hospitals, Bryan Langlands is a leader in NBBJ’s healthcare practice. Bryan has dedicated his 30-year career to the transformation of healthcare design, and is widely recognized for his work in standardizing and simplifying procedure, surgical and interventional environments—impacting millions of caregivers, patients and families across the country.

A noted regulatory expert, Bryan’s leadership appointments to the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) have defined regulatory standards for healthcare facilities across 42 states and for the Federal Government. Bryan is an NBBJ Fellow—which recognizes his lifetime achievement in transforming the profession—and the recipient of the Healthcare Design “HCD10” Team MVP Award. Bryan is a fellow of both the American Institute of Architects and the American College of Healthcare Architects, where he sits on the Board of Regents, and is a frequent presenter at conferences including NY Building Congress and AIA Los Angeles

Katie Fricke, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, Senior Health Planning Principal at HDR, is responsible for project team leadership related to the pursuit and delivery of healthcare projects. Her primary focus is on facility and departmental planning of healthcare and research facilities, as well as aesthetic solutions and the overall design of large, complex projects.

With over 25 years of experience, Katie has worked on a wide range of healthcare planning projects to include strategic facility master plans, ambulatory planning, women’s and children’s facilities, emergency departments, operating rooms and oncology projects. She uses her expertise to evaluate and integrate conceptual, analytical and spatial criteria to develop thoughtful patient- and family-centered spaces. Katie is passionate about creating sensible, customized solutions for healthcare environments that respond to today’s issues and include flexibility for future unknowns.

She is a past chairperson for the Communications and Outreach Committee and now serves as BOR liaison.

As a principal at Page, a leading architecture and engineering firm, Akshay Sangolli, AIA, ACHA, EDAC, LEED AP, oversees the operations of the Denver office across multiple sectors; and leads the healthcare work across multiple states in the US west – Colorado, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, etc.

With over a decade of design, planning & project delivery experience on projects across the United States, Europe & India, his mission is to empower teams to create world-class healing environments and human experiences, using an evidence-based design approach that integrates interdisciplinary design lessons, strategic planning, and client vision.

As an ACHA board certified healthcare architect, he has led healthcare planning on multiple award winning inpatient and outpatient projects including complex academic medical center expansions, green field community hospitals, specialty cancer & pediatric facilities and stand-alone medical office/ ambulatory care centers.

ACHA Past Presidents

1999-2002 – D. Kirk Hamilton, FAIA, FACHA
2003-2004 – Morris A. Stein, FAIA, FACHA
2005 – Donald C. McKahan, AIA, FACHA-Emeritus
2006 – Francis Murdock Pitts, FAIA, FACHA
2007 – John Pangrazio, FAIA, FACHA
2008 – Rebecca Lewis, FAIA, FACHA
2009-2010 – Joseph G. Sprague, FAIA, FACHA-Emeritus
2011 – Robert P. Walker, AIA, FACHA-Emeritus
2012 – Wilbur H. (Tib) Tusler, FAIA, FACHA-Emeritus
2013 – Peter Bardwell, FAIA, FACHA-Emeritus
2014 – Connie S. McFarland, FAIA, FACHA
2015 – Anthony J. Haas, FAIA, FACHA
2016 – Mark A. Nichols, AIA, FACHA
2017 – A. Ray Pentecost III, FAIA, FACHA
2018 – William J. Hercules, FAIA, FACHA
2019 – John W. Rogers, FAIA, FACHA
2020 – Vince Avallone, AIA, FACHA
2021 – Angela Mazzi, FAIA, FACHA
2022 – Steve Templet, AIA, FACHA
2023 – Clyde “Ted” Moore, AIA, ACHA
2024 – Ann Adams, AIA, FACHA
2025 – David Allison, FAIA, FACHA