SmithGroup JJR healthcare leaders Heather Chung, Sam D’Amico, Bonnie Khang-Keating and Matt Richter have been promoted to vice president.
Heather Chung, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C, is a senior healthcare planning architect and leads the firm’s Health Planning Studio in San Francisco, California. Among SmithGroupJJR’s top experts in healthcare delivery, operations and organization, Chung is well known in the industry. She served as principal programmer for the campus transformation project at Loma Linda University Medical Center and has also been engaged in master planning for Los Angeles County’s Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, which will develop a roadmap for campus growth over the next 20-50 years. Chung is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in architecture and economics.
Sam D’Amico, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is lead healthcare designer at SmithGroupJJR’s San Francisco office, where he specializes in developing healing environments that respond to culture and place. A 30-year professional, D’Amico is leading the design for the 1-million-square-foot Robley Rex VA Medical Center, underway in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also serving as design leader for the new 325,000-square-foot, VA Palo Alto Ambulatory Care Center, targeted for completion in 2017 and the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center campus master plan for Los Angeles County. D’Amico is a graduate of the University of Houston, where he earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree.
Bonnie Khang-Keating is studio director for the SmithGroupJJR office in Los Angeles, California. For healthcare client Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, she led the firm’s design of its new Comprehensive Transplant Center, now open adjacent to the main medical Campus. Khang-Keating led SmithGroupJJR’s recent new commission of the $230-million LA County Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Hospital project, as well as a 110,000-square-foot acute care and long-term rehabilitation facility project to be constructed at the Palomar Medical Center campus in Escondido, California. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Architecture with a Bachelor of Architecture degree.
Matt Richter, AIA, is a medical planning architect at SmithGroupJJR’s San Francisco office. He serves as one of the firm’s top national experts in facilities for surgery, emergency service, outpatient care and women’s health services. In addition to working on major healthcare projects in San Francisco, such as Sutter Health/California Pacific Medical Center’s new Van Ness and Geary campus, Richter is serving as planning principal for the firm’s Emory University Hospital bed tower expansion project in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a frequent presenter at top healthcare industry forums on topics including ambulatory care facility design innovation. Richter earned a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from the University of Arizona.
