Biography- Emil A. Slavik, AIA, ACHA 

Emil A. Slavik, AIA, ACHA  Emil provides architectural and planning advice.  Emil has led multi-disciplinary teams in the master planning processes with healthcare transformation to synthesize strategic assumptions and volume projections, calculate capacity requirements, optimize existing facilities to maximize throughput (including recommendations for bed reduction, project future facility needs, enhance financial stability, meet the evolving needs of the marketplace and support the transformation of care.  Emil has over thirty years of national and international experience with a focus on healthcare and medical facilities.  Serving as senior medical planner/architect for both national architectural firms as well as for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Emil approaches healthcare architecture as a commercial and successful enterprise by providing pleasant, functional and operationally efficient facilities to support the individual healthcare and healing mission.  Emil’s involvement spans the full spectrum of master planning, programming, equipment planning and hospital design on projects ranging from free-standing clinics to centers of excellence for medical specialties such as emergency care, pediatrics, oncology and cardiology.  He has a Master of Architecture (1986) specializing in Healthcare Design from The Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science, Architecture from The Ohio State University (1984).  He is a founding member of the American College of Healthcare Architects and serves on the Education Committee, The Association for the Care of Children's Health, American Institute of Architects, The Academy of Architecture for Health, Leadership Council and numerous others. Emil has worked on more than 60 Dynamis projects.