Gresham Smith is proud to announce that Doug Spies, AIA, MHA, LEED AP, has joined the firm as Senior Vice President and Advisory Services Program Director in the firm’s Healthcare market. Using his 25 years of experience, he will lead the firm’s team of professionals dedicated to providing strategic planning services for health systems, helping define projects and establish the broad direction of capital improvement programs.
Doug joins Gresham Smith from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UMPC), where he advised the Executive Management Team on strategic planning, operational improvements and campus development across the health system’s 40 hospitals and 800 clinical locations for the past 10 years. He provided oversight and direction to all architecture and engineering firms working on UPMC projects systemwide.
Doug has shared his insights on healthcare planning on a national scale, presenting to the Center for Health Design and the Hospital Services Support Foundation. He’s also served on leadership committees with the American College of Healthcare Architects, the Academy of Architecture for Health, the Facility Guidelines Institute, and the American Institute of Architects Pittsburgh chapter. Spies is a graduate of Walden University where he earned a Master of Healthcare Administration, as well as the University of Illinois – Chicago where he earned a Bachelor of Architecture.
