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Joan Saba, FAIA, FACHA, NCARB
Consulting Partner | Healthcare Practice Leader
Joan Saba, FAIA, FACHA, NCARB
Consulting Partner | Healthcare Practice Leader
Specializing in healthcare design and planning, Joan Saba brings more than 35 years of expertise and strategic vision to all types of healthcare projects, with a focus on academic medical centers, pediatric and teaching hospitals. Her expertise in translating current and future programmatic and operational needs into effective healing environments is applied to projects of diverse scales. She has developed long-term client relationships with a range of prestigious healthcare organizations and has advised on some of the nation’s most pressing healthcare design issues. Joan is also a trusted advisor to boards and senior management teams in developing and implementing strategies and capital planning tailored to specific organizational needs.
Joan has led healthcare planning and design efforts on the Kimmel Pavilion at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, including Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, as well as the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and multiple buildings for Massachusetts General Hospital. The recent MGH Lunder Building has won numerous design and industry awards, including a National Healthcare Design Award from the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health.
Recognized as an industry expert and dynamic educator, Joan frequently lectures on innovations in the planning and design of academic healthcare and pediatric environments. She has presented at Stanford Medicine X, The Economist Health Care Forum, the Academy of Architecture for Health, Harvard University Graduate School of Design's Executive Education Program, and the Symposium of Healthcare Design. Joan has also been named as one of Healthcare Design’s HCD 10 and “Twenty Who Are Making a Difference,” and is a recipient of the AIA/Academy of Architecture for Health’s Presidential Citation Award.