"The design of the built environment can transform our partner's aspirations into spaces to heal, teach and discover. The convergence of best practices in healthcare, medical education and research with these aspirations can create a foundation for long-term sustainability. It is a privilege to be part of this collaborative process."
Ms. Matthews is an architect and planner with expertise in the planning and design of facilities for health care, education, and research. She has broad experience in all phases of building design from master planning and initial conceptualization through programming, detailed design development, equipment planning, and construction. Ms. Matthews’ career has focused on guiding multi-disciplinary teams in the design of state-of-the-art diagnostic and inpatient care, ambulatory care, technologically advanced research facilities, and medical education facilities. She has wide-ranging knowledge in translating an institution’s aspirations and needs into flexible, family-centered healing environments and dynamic learning and research environments. Her health care, academic and research projects have been nationally recognized, including the
Center for Health Design/Contract Magazine health environment award,
AIA and the Healthcare Care Assembly health care design awards and
Modern Healthcare design awards.
Her clients have included many of the most prestigious academic medical centers in the U.S. today. Among them are Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, University of Chicago Hospitals, University of Massachusetts Medical School, University of Pennsylvania Health Systems, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children’s Hospital of Milwaukee, Lehigh Valley Hospital, MetroHealth Medical Center, and M. D. Andersen.
Prior to joining PHMI, Ms. Matthews gained extensive professional architectural experience at Tsoi/Kobus and Associates (TK&A), where she provided leadership in design on many of the fi rm’s most challenging and technologically complex academic medical center projects. Ms. Matthews is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Boston Society of Architects and is a LEED Accredited Professional, with a commitment to architectural mentoring as a thesis advisor and design critic.
Ms. Matthews received her Master in Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania.