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Committee Biographical Information

KENNETH W. KIZER, M.D., M.P.H., Chair, is a distinguished professor and director of the Institute for Population Health Improvement (IPHI) at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Kizer is an internationally respected healthcare leader and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the National Academy of Public Administration. Among his multiple roles at IPHI, he serves as the chief medical officer for the California Department of Managed Health Care, director of the California Cancer Reporting and Epidemiologic Surveillance Program, and Chief Quality Improvement Consultant for the Medi-Cal Quality Improvement Program. Dr. Kizer is a highly seasoned physician executive whose diverse professional experience includes senior positions in the public and private sectors, academia, and philanthropy. Among his previous positions are founding president and CEO, National Quality Forum; chairman, CEO, and president, Medsphere Systems Corporation (a leading commercial provider of open source health information technology); Under Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and chief executive officer of the nation’s largest healthcare system (in which capacity he engineered the internationally acclaimed transformation of the Veterans Healthcare System in the late1990s); director of the former California Department of Health Services; director of the California Emergency Medical Services Authority; and chair of The California Wellness Foundation (the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health promotion and population health improvement). Dr. Kizer is an honors’ graduate of Stanford University and UCLA, the recipient of two honorary doctorates, and a fellow or distinguished fellow of 12 professional societies. He is board certified in six medical specialties and subspecialties, and has authored over 500 original articles, book chapters, and other reports. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and a former Navy diving medical officer and a recognized expert on medicine in wilderness and austere environments. He has chaired and served on numerous National Academies committees.

EDWARD J. DENTON is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), with expertise in facilities including design, construction, maintenance operations, real estate, and security. Mr. Denton has extensive experience in management of design and construction for major healthcare and higher education projects as well as government agencies, developers, and large corporate clients. He has expertise in project

development, design, program preparation, and administration, and is knowledgeable in seismic, energy, and environmental impact issues; building codes; ADA and OSHPD design; and construction requirements. From 2014 to the present, Mr. Denton has offered consulting services for developing and maintaining higher education and healthcare facilities. From 1998 to 2014, he was vice chancellor of Facilities Services, campus architect, and chief building official at the University of California, Berkeley.

DON EUGENE DETMER is university professor emeritus of health policy, emeritus senior vice president, and professor of medical education, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Virginia. Earlier, Dr. Detmer served as vice president and provost for Health Sciences at Virginia and VPHS at the University of Utah. He serves on a number of boards, among them the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the journal, Applied Clinical Informatics. As the first president and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association, he helped develop the medical subspecialty of clinical informatics offered by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Dr. Detmer has also served as the medical director for health policy and advocacy for the American College of Surgeons. In the early 1990s, he was the Dennis Gillings Professor of health management at Cambridge University. While there, Dr. Detmer served as a consultant to the British Parliament to review its national health information technology (HIT) strategy and assisted the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong with its HIT infrastructure. He also led the European “Informed Patient Project.” Earlier, while chair of the U.S. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), Dr. Detmer created its national health information infrastructure work group that envisioned secure integrated electronic health records for medical care and public health as well as personal use, including national coordination. He also chaired the Institute of Medicine board on healthcare services for 8 years and was liaison to the To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm reports. Dr. Detmer chaired the reports The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care and served on other study committees. In the mid-1990s, he founded the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group. While at Wisconsin, Dr. Detmer was central in creating a master’s degree program in Administrative Medicine, and as a surgery resident at Duke, he was instrumental in fostering the modern era of ambulatory surgery as well as surgical physician assistants. He is an expert in medial tibial stress and chronic compartment syndromes. Dr. Detmer is the recipient of the Morris Collen Medal from ACMI, the Walsh McDermott Award from the National Academy of Medicine (then IOM) and is an honorary member of the American Academy of Nursing and the American Academy of Physician Assistants.

LAURA KATHRYN FIDLER, M.P.H., is a consultant at AMC Strategies, LLC. Ms. Fidler has 30 years’ experience in academic health center master planning; clinical, educational, and research facilities construction/renovation; capital budgeting; and space planning. She gained this expertise through working in several functions at one institution for 24 years—University of Cincinnati (UC) Academic Health Center—followed by 7 years of providing strategic planning consulting services for a number of top institutions. Specific relevant experience includes the development and implementation of a $480 million, 10-year master plan of new construction and renovated space for the academic health campus. Through successful negotiations with four colleges and four hospital partners, a master plan was created to address the center’s future teaching, clinical, and research needs. The largest phase of the project was a million-square-foot renovation of the Medical Sciences Building, the largest federally funded college of medicine ever constructed. Ms. Fidler led the space planning, design, swing space strategies, and capital budgeting for this project, resulting in the creation of new laboratories, classrooms, study space, animal facilities, and an upgraded mechanical infrastructure. To address growth and swing space needs, she directed the acquisition, renovation, and implementation of new satellite campuses. Ms. Fidler currently consults with national academic health centers to develop and implement strategic plans for institutional, departmental, and clinical service lines.

G. EDWARD (EDD) GIBSON, JR., is Professor and Sunstate Chair of Construction Management and Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment (SSEBE) at Arizona State University (ASU). Dr. Gibson served as the school director from 2011 to 2018 and before that as programs

chair of the Del E. Webb School of Construction from 2009-2011. In addition to ASU, he has served on the faculty of North Carolina State University, University of Texas, Austin, and University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Dr. Gibson’s educational background includes a B.S. and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Auburn University and an M.B.A. from the University of Dallas. He has been principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on over $9.5 million worth of funded research in his career. Dr. Gibson’s research and teaching interests include front end planning, organizational change, asset management, alternative dispute resolution, and risk management, and he has received several awards for research excellence including the Construction Industry Institute’s (CII’s) Outstanding Researcher twice. Dr. Gibson has authored or coauthored over 230 publications, taught over 210 short courses to industry, and given more than 250 presentations in his career. He has been active on many national committees, among them a National Research Council (NRC) committee investigating project management practices at the U.S. Department of Energy, the Architectural Engineering Institute, and he also served as a Fulbright senior specialist in Norway in fall 2004. Dr. Gibson was awarded the 2016 ASCE R. L. Peurifoy Award for outstanding research. He has several years of industry experience and is a licensed professional engineer in Texas. Dr. Gibson is an elected member of the National Academy of Construction and a fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers and through January 2019 was a member of the NRC Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment.

SANJIV B. GOKHALE, P.E., is a professor of civil engineering and director of graduate studies in construction management at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University. Prior to Vanderbilt University, Dr. Gokhale was a tenured associate professor in the Construction Management program at the Purdue University School of Engineering, Indianapolis, Indiana. He has over 15 years of consulting experience, related to design and construction. Dr. Gokhale is a registered professional engineer in New York state. He is the co-author of Trenchless Technology: Pipeline and Utility Design, Construction, and Renewal, published by McGraw Hill in 2005, and the author of Construction Management of Healthcare Projects, published by McGraw Hill in 2014. Dr. Gokhale is the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Professor Award by the Construction Industry Institute (CII). He was elected as a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2009 and is a current member of the NRC Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment.

MICHAEL HARBER, P.E., is vice president for facilities management at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Harber has served in that position for 13 years and has been at St. Jude since 2000. While at St. Jude, he has been the director of facilities operation and maintenance and a construction project manager. Mr. Harber has over 35 years of facilities management and engineering experience. Before joining St. Jude, he retired from the U.S. Navy after serving 20 years in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps, where he served in various facilities and construction management positions including the director of construction for a 1,000,000 SF, $185 million medical center and utilities plant replacement project and as the facilities director at the Navy’s largest medical center and 19 satellite clinics. Mr. Harber has a very broad facilities and construction management background, having managed projects ranging from ammunition facilities to large hospitals and research buildings/vivariums. As vice president of facilities management, he was responsible for the departments of Design and Construction, Facilities Operations and Maintenance, Security, Biomedical Engineering, and Environmental Services. As the construction activity has increased, Mr. Harber has shed most of his responsibilities and now focuses on design and construction with particular emphasis on facilities planning. He has a master of engineering degree from the University of Florida and a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy. Mr. Harber is a registered professional engineer.

KERSTIN HILDEBRANDT-ABDIKARIM, M.S.H.S., is the vice president of research administration, Children’s Research Institute (CRI) at Children’s National Health System. In this capacity, Ms. Hildebrandt-Abdikarim is responsible for the strategic facility master planning of the current research facilities at the hospital campus as well as at the future Children’s National Research Innovation Campus

at the historic Walter Reed campus. In this capacity, she is responsible for the strategic facility master planning of the current research facilities at the hospital campus as well as at the future Research Innovation Campus at Walter Reed. Ms. Hildebrandt-Abdikarim’s role encompasses strategic planning, administration and operations, facility development and construction, health and safety, the Research Animal Facility, financial management, regulatory affairs, human resource, IT, and communications, with a focus on LEAN research infrastructure development, integration, and optimization. Her current efforts are focused on laboratory densification, based on new lab space metrics and innovative ideas, to support 3 to 5 years of research program growth prior to the transition of the research programs to Walter Reed. Ms. Hildebrandt-Abdikarim received her B.S and M.S. in clinical research administration from George Washington University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Prior to joining Children’s in 2001, she served as the administrator of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and as the administrative director of the Georgetown University, General Clinical Research Center. As president of a tenant organization in Boston, Ms. Hildebrandt-Abdikarim led the legal, financial, and development team of the only national tenant-governed Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-sponsored HOPE II grant, resulting in $11 million of funding to purchase, renovate, and preserve a 276-unit, 23-story high-rise of affordable housing.

DOUGLAS W. KINCAID, P.E., is president and general manager, Applied Management Engineering (AME). Mr. Kincaid has helped set industry standards for facility condition assessments, maintenance and repair cost estimating, preventive maintenance, and asset management process. He and AME have been active in publishing facility management concepts. Mr. Kincaid has participated in the authorship of Managing the Facilities Portfolio and Maintenance Management Audit. He also directed the development of an RSMeans, Facilities’ Maintenance and Repair Cost Data, which includes preventive maintenance standards developed by AME. Mr. Kincaid also was a member of the review committee for the National Research Council’s publication, Stewardship of Federal Facilities.

THOMAS L. MITCHELL, JR., is senior vice president/COO of FM3IS Associates, LLC, San Antonio, TX. At FM3IS, Mr. Mitchell manages client-facing teams retained to develop and deliver services in the areas of facility portfolio performance, workforce capability development, and organization functionality alignment. From 2008 to 2014, he was lead associate, Facilities and Asset Management Consulting Services, with Booz Allen Hamilton, where he led technical consulting teams who collaborated with clients and other Booz Allen colleagues to develop vision, strategies, courses of action, and practical solutions that shape, improve, and optimize the built environment. Mr. Mitchell is a retired Lt. Col. in the U.S. Air Force, having spent 20 years of leading and managing programs directing the development, acquisition, and sustainment of facilities at military installations throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

KIRK PAWLOWSKI received his master of architecture degree from the University of Oregon and is a nationally respected academic health and life sciences architect practioner and former principal at the Portland, Oregon-Seattle, Washington firm SRG Partnership. As assistant vice provost for capital resource planning at the University of Washington (UW), Mr. Pawlowski served as a member of the UW President’s Environmental Stewardship Committee (UWESC) and the UW Architectural Commission. His responsibilities include chairing the UWESC Implementation Work Group and the UW “Energy Future” Planning Workgroup. Mr. Pawlowski was responsible for the development and management of the UW 10-Year Capital Plan—UW’s “One Capital Plan”—and led the successful integration of UW Academic Medical Center and UW School and College academic programs, including development and implementation of a new seismic-resilience capital investment program, within UW’s biennial and long-range capital and operating resource allocation process. As executive director for capital planning and development at Washington State University (WSU) and Oregon State University (OSU)—the Land Grant universities of the Pacific Northwest—Mr. Pawlowski worked closely with WSU President Elson Floyd and academic faculty and staff to guide development of 800,000 gross square feet of new, state-of-the-art

biomedical research facilities on the Pullman, Washington, campus, including the WSU College of Veterinary Medicine Global Animal Health facilities in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Pullman, Washington, as well as development of a new WSU School of Medicine and new facilities for the WSU Schools of Pharmacy and Nursing at WSU’s health sciences campus in Spokane, Washington. At Oregon State University, Mr. Pawlowski led the development of the Oregon State University (OSU) long-range capital plan and a new OSU campus in Bend, Oregon, in coordination with the State of Oregon Governor’s Office and the Oregon Legislature. Mr. Pawlowski also served as the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) director of planning and real estate, and guided development of clinical and research facilities and established design standards for new buildings and renovations on the Marquam Hill and South Waterfront Campuses, as well as the federal Oregon Primate Research Center located in Beaverton, Oregon.

WILLIAM R. SEED is a senior vice president, facility design and construction, at Jackson Health System in Miami, Florida. In that position, Mr. Seed provides leadership for a $1.5 billion capital program delivering six signature projects in 4 years, including two new, full-service specialty hospitals renovating four existing hospitals to enhance service as the Miami-Dade County safety net healthcare provider. From 2014 to 2017, he was executive project integration with Walt Disney Imagineering, leading a program delivery transformation employing Lean Integrated Project Delivery methodologies. Mr. Seed has published two books and two white papers on transformational change in the construction industry, each centered on Lean principles and Integrated Project Delivery. In 2014, he was inducted into the National Academy of Construction recognizing this effort. Mr. Seed has been member of the board of directors and past chair for the Lean Construction Institute for 7 years and was awarded the Pioneer Award in 2012. Along with his B.S. in mechanical engineering, commercial general contractor license, and master electrical license, Mr. Seed has functioned in numerous roles from physical plant operations to capital and real estate development for two national healthcare systems with over 250 combined campuses.

SARAH SLAUGHTER is a recognized expert on resilience and sustainability for the built environment. Dr. Slaughter is the CEO and founder of the Built Environment Coalition, a research and education nonprofit (501c3) focused on community sustainability and resilience. She currently serves on the Green Building Advisory Committee (GBAC) to the U.S. General Services Administration on sustainable technologies and practices for the federal built facilities portfolio. Dr. Slaughter currently advises federal agencies on strategies for improving resilience, and she is a subject matter expert on urban infrastructure resilience for several research projects. In 2015, Dr. Slaughter was a visiting lecturer in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, teaching and doing research on resilient communities. Before founding the Built Environment Coalition, she was the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) Associate Director for Buildings and Infrastructure, and co-founder and faculty head of the Sustainability Initiative in the MIT Sloan School of Management. Previously, Dr. Slaughter was founder and CEO of MOCA Systems, Inc., based on the construction simulation software system developed in her MIT research. Before MOCA, she was a MIT professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and earlier was a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lehigh University. Dr. Slaughter is currently a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Construction. She was previously on the NAS National Research Council (NRC) Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE), the NAS DoD Standing Committee on Materials, Manufacturing, and Infrastructure, and the vice chair of the NRC Committee on Sustainable Critical Infrastructure Systems. Dr. Slaughter also served on the Massachusetts Sustainable Water Management Advisory Board, the Sustainability Committee in the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA), and several national and international advisory committees and editorial boards of professional publications. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Charles River Watershed Association, and previously served on the Board of Directors of Retroficiency, Inc.; Eastern Research Group/AEA Technology, Inc.; and MOCA Systems, Inc. Dr. Slaughter received her Ph.D., S.M., and S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

PHILIP E. TOBEY, F.A.I.A., F.A.C.H.A., is senior vice president of SmithGroupJJR, one of the nation’s largest architectural/engineering firms. He has over 45 years of experience in healthcare planning and design for the country’s leading academic medical centers and healthcare systems. In 2008, Mr. Tobey was appointed to the U.S. Defense Health Board, evidence of his federal and military healthcare expertise. Widely recognized as one of the profession’s leaders in healthcare architecture, he has addressed many national and regional organizations concerning issues and trends that affect healthcare, including the American Society of Hospital Executives, American Society of Hospital Engineers, American Society of Military Engineers, and AIA Academy of Architecture for Health. Notable clients include the National Institutes of Health, numerous academic medical centers, all branches of service of the Department of Defense, major health systems (including Kaiser Permanente, Sutter, and Universal), and many regional and community healthcare providers. Recently, Mr. Tobey was appointed to two congressionally mandated independent review panels for DoD: Achieving World Class Medical Facilities and Strategy Drives Form and Function—An Assessment of Military Medical Construction. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Tobey served as an officer with the U.S. Air Force Office of the Surgeon General with review responsibility for medical projects worldwide, and where for almost a year, he was on special assignment to the White House.