Speaker Bios
Carl H. Beers, AIA
Senior Vice President
HKS
Carl Beers, director of the HKS Florida Healthcare Group, brings more than 19 years of specialized experience to the creation of award-winning projects for HKS’s healthcare and long term care clients. Carl possesses outstanding team leadership skills as well as superior design quality honed by extensive experience in the design of inpatient and teaching hospitals, heart centers, ambulatory surgery and ambulatory care centers, women’s and children’s projects, including nursery and neonatal environments, cancer care, residency practice environments, clinical facilities, and medical office buildings. Additionally, he has significant experience in the design of long term care facilities such as skilled nursing, cognitively impaired, assisted living, independent living, wellness, and rehabilitation projects.
Mike Chihoski
Corporate Director of Engineering
OSF Healthcare
Michael Chihoski is a Certified Healthcare Facility Manager (CHFM), Certified Healthcare Safety Professional (CHSP) and a Senior of the American Society of Healthcare Engineering (SASHE). Mr. Chihoski has earned a B.S. Industrial Technology and M.S. Industrial Management. Mr. Chihoski has more than 18 years experience working in the health care industry in a variety of capacities. Mr. Chihoski has worked for several large hospitals and has been consulting for more than 12 years. Throughout his career Mr. Chihoski has been involved in more than 1,000 projects for more than 300 hospitals nationwide.
Mr. Chihoski is currently an Intermittent Consultant for Joint Commission Resources and the Corporate Director of Engineering for OSF Healthcare System in Peoria , Illinois . OSF is a seven hospital integrated health care system with facilities located in Illinois and Michigan . In his current role Mr. Chihoski is responsible for the corporate management of real estate, property management, design and construction, plant operations, biomedical engineering and environmental health and safety. Mr. Chihoski is currently managing a capital construction program of approximately $1 billion.
Hollis Harris
Project Director
Kaiser Permanente
Hollis Harris is a L icensed Architect with 30 years of design and construction experience. Over the past 20 years, Ms. Harris has focused on Health Care design and construction. Currently, Ms. Harris' responsibilities include a new 150 bed hospital with a 57 provider Medical Office Building. Ms. Harris graduated with a degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley.
William Hercules
Vice President
HKS Architects
Within an architectural career spanning more than twenty years, Bill Hercules has accepted the responsibility for a wide variety of leadership roles. As a Director within the HKS Florida Healthcare Team, Bill is responsible for project direction, client relations, and market strategy.
Bill has dedicated most of his professional career to the practice of architecture for health. He thoroughly enjoys sorting through the critical complexities and technical challenges of this fast-paced industry by developing carefully considered, design responses to market opportunities that satisfy all of the stakeholders of these organizations, contributing to their sustainability and supporting their mission. Bill plays an active leadership role in many professional groups in support of advancing healthcare design. He participates within the HKS Healthcare Operations and Planning Group, an in-house think-tank supporting research and design exploration advancing healthcare operational efficacy.
Bill is a registered architect in Illinois, Missouri, and Colorado. In addition to active participation with several civic and philanthropic organizations, Bill is an active member of the American Institute of Architects, the Academy of Architecture for Health, chairman of AIA AAH � Orlando, American College of Healthcare Architects, American College of Healthcare Executives, and a LEED Accredited Professional.
Charlie Johnston
HKS Architects
With more than forty years of award winning experience in the creation of healthcare environments, Charlie Johnston provides valuable maturity in planning, design, and technology. Charlie's strategic vision and expertise is trusted by and sought after by client leadership. He is a leader in developing the HKS Detroit business and process models, planning and design quality objectives and ethical practice standards. He is responsible for business and financial operations, project quality and process review, and client development and relations at the highest level.
Charlie's healthcare experience spans the full spectrum of inpatient and outpatient settings and facilities. He is a catalyst for experience based facility planning and design improvement and an advocate for evolutionary flexibility in the design of healthcare facilities. He brings extensive experience in capital project development
Charlie is a registered architect in Michigan, Indiana, Iowa and Idaho. He is NCARB accredited and is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Academy of Architecture for Health. He has a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Michigan where he also received a fellowship in architectural technology and did graduate study in landscape architecture. He has a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from Wayne State University. He has been a visiting lecturer and critic at the Universities of Michigan and Detroit Mercy and at Michigan State University and Lawrence Technical University. Charlie has also authored two books concerning design for senior housing accommodation.
Ode Keil
Senior Editor, FacilityCare Magazine
President, The Ode Keil Consulting Group
Mr. Keil is internationally recognized as an expert resource and teacher in the areas described by the JCAHO's PTSM and EC standards.
Ode Richard Keil, MS, MBA, CCE is the Director of Quality Management and Performance Improvement for Provena Mercy Center in Aurora Illinois. He is also the President of The Ode Keil Consulting Group. Inc. Mr. Keil manages several departments of Provena Mercy Center including Quality and Risk Management, Patient Safety, Medical Staff Affairs, Infection Control, and the Care Management group. He consults with hospitals across the country on JCAHO and regulatory compliance issues.
His previous work experience includes:
Eight years as Vice President of Safety Management Services, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in environment of care issues; Thirteen years as Director of Plant and Technology Management for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. During his tenure with the Joint Commission, he developed the Plant Technology and Safety Management (PTSM) and Management of the Environment of Care (EC) Standards. Mr. Keil also designed the current survey and accreditation process associated with these standards. Six years managing biomedical equipment management programs for both hospitals and independent service companies.
Mr. Keil is a well-known expert in the areas addressed by the JCAHO standards for managing the environment of care. He has taught survey process and standards to Joint Commission surveyors and is internationally recognized as an expert resource and teacher in the areas described by the PTSM and EC standards. He has also served on committees and boards of many important healthcare organizations including AAMI, NFPA and ASHE, and has served as a member of many government panels and task forces at the state and national level.
John Martinelli
Director
Forensic Analytical Consulting Services
Northern California
Mr. Martinelli has more than 20 years experience working in the field of environmental health and safety. In this role he has worked on numerous environmental health and safety, mold, asbestos, indoor air quality and lead-related projects. Mr. Martinelli also has extensive experience in training other professionals. He has delivered over 40,000 hours of health and safety training to a variety of trainees covering all aspects of hazardous materials inspections, project design, abatement and project management.
Constance Nestor
Director of Design & Construction;
Advocate Health Care
For over 15 years has provided planning, programming, design, financial analysis, management consulting services and project direction for healthcare organizations and academic research institutions. Known in healthcare industry for thoughtful, futurist perspectives; Ms. Nestor is widely published and speaks regularly at national forums.
Ms. Nestor is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives; serves as an Officer in the International Health Facilities Management Association (IFMA) Health Care Council, Chairs the IFMA HCC Committee for Standards Development; serves on the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Reagent’s Advisory Council and serves as adjunct faculty in the teaches University of Illinois School of Architecture Health Design Program and the University of Wisconsin School of Engineering Health Design and Planning Program; served on the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board Certificate of Need Guidelines Recommendations Task Force; served as faculty for VHA educational Seminars, Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management Healthcare Conference and Mundelein College.
Professionally, Ms. Nestor served as an officer and principal in two prestigious firms: 1) Principal and Practice Leader for Planning at RTKL Associates – the 4th largest healthcare architectural planning and design firm in the world and 2) Principal for Facilities Planning and Capital Resource Allocation Practice at Chi Systems – a nationally prominent healthcare management and clinical operations consulting firm. She currently serves as Director of Design and Construction for Advocate Health Care, a seven hospital campus healthcare system with 250 facilities and 25,000 employees. Her Master of Architecture degree was earned at Washington University.
Kim Shinn
Principal, Director of Sustainable Design
TLC Engineering for Architecture
Kim Shinn is a registered professional mechanical engineer in fourteen states and a Principal
with TLC Engineering for Architecture (www.tlc-engineers.com), as well as TLC’s Director of
Sustainable Design.
He is an AABC Consulting Group (ACG) Certified Commissioning Authority. Kim is a Certified
Professional Services Marketer, and is a Past-President of the Nashville Chapter of the Society
of Marketing for Professional Services (SMPS). Kim is a co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of
the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the US Green Building Council (USGBC), was the first Chair of
the USGBC Chapters’ South East Region Council, a member of the national Chapter Steering
Committee and is currently the Southeast Regional Delegate to the national USGBC Board of
Directors, serving in that capacity through 2009. Kim also serves on the Program Committee of
the USGBC’s national conference, Greenbuild.
He has been a USGBC LEED™ 2.0 Accredited Professional since May 2001, and has been
actively involved in the design or commissioning of over three dozen LEED registered and
certified projects, including higher education, courthouse, hospital, laboratory LEED-NC and pilot
projects for LEED Commercial Interiors and LEED Core and Shell. Kim has helped create the
Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC) and is on the LEED committees to draft application guides
for laboratories, healthcare and campus combined heat/cooling/ power systems.
Kim is a 1978 cum laude graduate of Texas Tech University with degrees in engineering physics
and mechanical engineering. Kim is the author of several articles for and has been frequently
quoted in the trade press, including PM Engineer, Healthcare Building Ideas, Consulting-
Specifying Engineer, ASHRAE Journal, Environmental Building News, and Construction Today.
When not trying to save the planet one green building at a time, Kim spends his time with his
wife, Nan and their three uncommon housecats (Baldwin Jones Quinones the WonderCat, Zoë
Penguin, and Princess Emily Louise Muffin), as an oenophile, and competing in endurance
athletic events as a Clydesdale Master (fancy way of saying Fat Old Guy).
Bob Turk
Vice President of Marketing, Healthcare
Eaton
Robert Turk has been afforded an experience that spans more than 15 years in marketing with responsibilities ranging from driving enterprise strategy, direction and growth in predominately healthcare, medical, information technology and supply-chain markets. He has a deep experience in understanding technology’s role within an organization to drive business and clinical benefits. Along with marketing and segment management, he has outstanding experience with developing, presenting and delivering key strategies and enterprise-level solutions to senior business and financial executives, corporate leadership, clinical staff and IT executives.
Robert Turk arrives to Eaton as the Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development for Siemens One, Inc. Siemens One is an enterprise-level marketing and project management division of Siemens Corporation, which simplifies large-scale, complex and high technology integration projects across the entire Siemens portfolio of companies. Robert was responsible for building and delivering new product and service solutions and defining to-market strategies for system integration, technology deployments and modernization programs which include enhanced infrastructure design, enterprise operation, and improved information automation resulting in marketplace differentiation, work-flow optimization, customer service and both top- and bottom-line performance.
Robert formerly held the position of Director of Strategic Marketing also within Siemens One. His responsibilities included research and definition of new markets and products, developing strategic business and sales plans to successfully enter markets and expanding enterprise trends within corporate accounts. In his role, he created customer and opportunity value propositions and led all marketing support while improving the combined strength of Siemens in marketing, sales and implementation of the inclusive Siemens portfolio.
Robert formerly held the position of Director of Strategic Marketing also within Siemens One. His responsibilities included research and definition of new markets and products, developing strategic business and sales plans to successfully enter markets and expanding enterprise trends within corporate accounts. In his role, he created customer and opportunity value propositions and led all marketing support while improving the combined strength of Siemens in marketing, sales and implementation of the inclusive Siemens portfolio.
Prior to joining Siemens, Robert was a divisional director for the American Hospital Association in Chicago.
Robert also served as the chief operations officer and an executive director of the Health Care Safety Institute in
Boston. Robert's education includes a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health and Safety from Bowling
Green State University and a Certificate in Health Systems Management from the Weatherhead School of
Management of Case Western Reserve University. Robert is active in many market-segment advisory boards, is
a contributing author, a frequent columnist and media source of IT informatics and emerging technologies such as
auto-ID including Telematics and RFID. Robert, his wife and three children live in Hudson, Ohio. He is an avid
bicyclist and enjoys backpacking, competitive soccer and architectural conservation and historic preservation.
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