RTKL Adds Two Healthcare Design Professionals to its Los Angeles Office
Rebecca Deren and Farnaz Nourmohammadi have joined the Los Angeles office of RTKL Associates Inc., an international architecture firm with more than 700 employees located throughout the world. Deren joins the Los Angeles office as an associate in the firmÂ’s healthcare practice; Nourmohammadi, who relocated from RTKLÂ’s Washington, D. C. office, joins the firm as a designer specializing in healthcare projects.
LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) October 14, 2004
Rebecca Deren and Farnaz Nourmohammadi have joined the Los Angeles office of RTKL Associates Inc., an international architecture firm with more than 700 employees located throughout the world. Deren joins the Los Angeles office as an associate in the firmÂ’s healthcare practice; Nourmohammadi, who relocated from RTKLÂ’s Washington, D. C. office, joins the firm as a designer specializing in healthcare projects.
“California’s healthcare industry continues to expand, upgrade, and add new facilities as the state’s population grows,” said Andrew Beilfuss, AIA, vice president spearheading the firm’s healthcare practice in the Los Angeles office. “Both Rebecca Deren and Farnaz Nourmohammadi have impeccable healthcare design experience that translates immediately into our expanding practice. We are pleased to welcome them to our team.”
Deren joins the firm with more than eight years of extensive national healthcare design experience. Prior to joining RTKL, she served as a project architect at OWP/P in Chicago. Some of her recent projects include: interior renovation of an intensive care unit at St. LukeÂ’s Medical Center in Phoenix; design of a new 750,000 SF womenÂ’s hospital at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago; and the renovation and addition of a cancer center, medical office building, trauma center and obstetrics units at Genesis Medical Center in Davenport, Iowa.
A 1995 graduate of Ball State UniversityÂ’s College of Architecture, Deren received two degrees: a bachelor of architecture and a bachelor of arts in environmental design.
NourmohammadiÂ’s experience encompasses every phase of architectural design from pre-design through construction administration. She originally joined RTKLÂ’s Washington, D. C. office in 2002, where she worked on such high-profile projects as the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.; the University of MarylandÂ’s Greenbaum Cancer Center in Baltimore; and the Underwood Memorial Hospital in Woodbury, N. J. Since joining RTKLÂ’s Los Angeles office, she has begun adding California experience including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, Calif., and Providence Little Company of Mary in Torrance, Calif.
A graduate of the University of Maryland, Nourmohammadi received her bachelorÂ’s degree in 2000, followed by a master of architecture degree in 2002. She also served as a teaching assistant at the University of MarylandÂ’s School of Architecture, located in College Park, Md.
RTKL is one of the world's largest planning and architectural firms. Founded in 1946, the company entered the healthcare and health science sector in 1962. Over the last 40 years, the firm has successfully guided the development of over $5 billion of new and renovated healthcare and health science projects. Today, the firm has amassed a portfolio of work that extends to 50 nations. For more information, please visit www. RTKL. com
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