Gerald Oudens has more than 40 years of specialized experience in the programming and planning of complex health care and other institutional facilities, with projects located throughout the United States and in Central America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

In addition to managing the firm's health care projects, his primary project involvement is in programming, conceptual and long-term planning and feasibility determination. He has completed strategic facility planning studies for numerous community hospitals including the 15-year revitalization plan for the Washington Hospital Center and a program of requirements, 20-year master plan and implementation strategy for the National Institutes of Health.

Mr. Oudens is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Fellow and member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Healthcare Architects. He is a past President of the AIA Academy on Architecture for Health. He has served on health care review and advisory panels for the National Institute of Building Sciences, the Veterans Administration, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, on design juries for the Modern Healthcare and the AACN/SCCM/AIA annual design awards competitions, and as a faculty member for AHA Institutes on Planning and Design.

Mr. Oudens is a cum laude graduate of Yale College and holds a Master's degree in architecture from Yale University.