Joseph G. Sprague, FAIA, FACHA, President
With more than 30 years experience, Joe is senior vice president and director of health facilities at HKS, Inc., in Dallas, Texas. He serves as health facilities principal and technical adviser on various health care projects. Prior to joining HKS, Joe was director of design and construction at the American Hospital Association. He was responsible for representing hospitals nationwide, including managing state-of-the-art resources in both government and voluntary standard-setting bodies. Developing a high degree of understanding of the principles utilized in health facility standards affecting design, Joe brings unique expertise to each project, seeing that the most current thinking is incorporated into each design. Joe has served as Chairman of the last three editions of the Guidelines and will serve as Chairman Emeritus of the 2010 edition. He is Past President of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health and Chairman of the NFPA Health Care Section. He is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects, a Founding Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Architects, and a Fellow in the Health Facilities Institute.

Douglas S. Erickson, FASHE, CHFM, HFDP, Vice President/Secretary
Doug currently serves as a national expert in facilities codes and standards. He has been providing service to the health care community for more than 30 years in various national capacities. He has held positions as director of engineering for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (1977 – 1981) and director of design and construction for the American Hospital Association (1985 – 1995). He currently represents the AHA/ASHE membership on multiple National Fire Protection Association Technical Committees. Doug has served on the Health Guidelines Revision Committee since 1978 and has been a Vice Chairman of the document for the past 18 years; he now serves as Chairman for the 2010 edition of the Guidelines. He has served as Chairman of the NFPA’s Health Care Section; a member of NFPA’s Standards Council; and a member of the Joint Commission’s Committee on Health Care Safety, on which he served for more than 6 years. Doug is a member of ASHRAE and served on its special project committee to write the Hospital and Clinics HVAC System Design Manual. He was also a member of the CDC review committee for the Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health Care Facilities.

Martin H. Cohen, FAIA, FACHA, Vice President/Treasurer
Martin is an architect, planner, and consultant to owners, architects, and developers of health facilities and senior living communities, with 50 years of diverse, worldwide experience focused on research, rationalizing codes, and design for aging. A Fellow of the AIA and past President of its Academy of Architecture for Health, Martin is a Vice Chairman of the Health Guidelines Revision Committee, Vice President and Treasurer of the Facility Guidelines Institute, Co-Chairman of AIA New York State’s Construction Standards Advisory Group for the New York State Department of Health, a Founding Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Architects, past President of the Forum for Health Care Planning, and a founding member of the AIA Design for Aging Center's Advisory Board

J. Armand Burgun, FAIA, FACHA, Past President
Armand retired after serving as CEO of RBS & D Architects, Inc., from 1960 to 1990. He served as Assistant Director for Hospital Construction of the New York State Department of Health from 1954 to 1960. Armand is the past Chairman of the Board of the NFPA, past Chairman of the NFPA Life Safety Committee, past President of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, past Chairman of the Health Guidelines Revision Committee, and past President of the Facility Guidelines Institute. Armand is currently a member of the International Executive Service Corporation.

Kurt A. Rockstroh, AIA, ACHA, Board Member
Kurt is president and CEO of Steffian Bradley Architects. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has 30 years of experience in the master planning and design of hospitals, medical office buildings, health maintenance organizations, and private institutions for research and teaching. He is member of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health and a founding member of the American College of Healthcare Architects. Kurt is also a Vice Chairman of the Health Guidelines Revision Committee.

Hugh O. Nash, Jr., PE, FIEEE, Board Member
Hugh is Managing Partner of Nash Lipsey Burch, a Nashville, Tennessee, consulting engineering firm specializing in health care facilities. Hugh is Chairman of the NFPA 99 Electrical Systems Committee and author of the ASHE/AHA Handbook on Electrical Systems. He’s been Chairman of the IEEE White Book Working Group since 1979 and a member of the National Electrical Code Committee since 1980. He also serves on the NFPA 110/111 Technical Committee. Hugh has published more than 50 articles and papers on a variety of topics, including hospital electrical systems, standby generators, telecommunications, project management, and quality management. He was elected a Fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1997.

Thomas M. Jung, RA, Board Member
Tom directs the planning, architectural design, and construction components of New York State’s Certificate of Need Program, overseeing the review and approval of more than one billion dollars of capital work annually. Tom chairs the Construction Standards Advisory Group (CSAG), an ad hoc group of more than 80 volunteers from the design, construction, and administrative fields of the New York State health care industry, which reviews and updates state health care construction regulations. In 1998 Tom received a President’s Citation from AIA New York State, in recognition of his leadership and the work accomplished by the CSAG. He authored the chapter “Health Care Security” for Building Security: Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design (by Barbara Nadel, McGraw-Hill, 2004), for which Ms. Nadel won an AIA Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement Award in 2005.

Arthur St. André, MD, FCCM, Board Member
Arthur is an internist critical care physician and currently serves as Director of Surgical Critical Care Services at the Washington Hospital Center, a 750-bed non-university teaching hospital in Washington, D.C. Arthur graduated from the Jefferson Medical College and did his residency and fellowship training at the George Washington University Hospital. His career as a clinician and educator has been very active, and in 2005 he received the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) distinguished Shubin Weil Award for Excellence in Critical Care. While a member of SCCM, he was selected for the ACCM; helped to develop the national ICU database, Project IMPACT; and served as chairman of the ICU Design Committee. He is a member of FGI’s Health Guidelines Revision Committee and now serves as part of its Steering Committee, the executive group responsible for the effort.