COLLABORATIVE INNOVATIONS
IN HEALTH
MAY 8, 2025 | 8AM - 11AM
RSVPs for the event are now closed. We have limited spots set aside at this time. If you are interested in attending at this point, please reach out directly to Isabelle Hole at isabelle.hole@hdrinc.com for more information. Thank you!
Justin Franklin
Justin is the Director of Project Management at Cumming Group and is the company’s Healthcare sector lead across the Rocky Mountain and Central region. Justin is a team-oriented leader and seasoned construction professional with over two decades construction management experience – including 17 years dedicated to health care and having worked on projects ranging from $250,000 to over $2 billion. Throughout his career he has worn multiple hats – contractor, owners’ representative, and claims consultant, providing a unique perspective on the many facets of the construction industry and the various challenges each stakeholder faces. Having started in construction at 16 years old, Justin is genuinely passion about the industry and enjoys the unique challenges that every project brings, from supporting the development of the next capital project, to helping find equitable solutions to overcome and resolve project challenges. Outside of work, Justin enjoys staying active, riding bikes with his wife, doing DIY projects, and watching his son wrestle and his daughter play soccer.
Kyle Erickson
Kyle Erickson has worked for the past five years for Amazon and Kaiser as an owner’s representative focused on infrastructure projects. While at Amazon, he helped develop the infrastructure needed to hire design teams to create construction documents for placing 30,000 chargers across 180 sites in the U.S., aiming to install 120,000 chargers by 2030. At Kaiser, he focuses on upgrading the MEP and seismic infrastructure projects throughout the Kaiser network. Most projects are heavily phased and last between 3 to 5 years. Before that, he spent 25 years working with mid-sized construction firms in the Denver market in their preconstruction department, primarily concentrating on healthcare, tenant finish, and specialized ground-up projects. Eighty-five percent of the work was negotiated with repeat clients. He has also helped raise three amazing kids, enjoys woodworking, and mentors with Minds Matter Colorado.
Kevin Jayne
Kevin is a principal and project manager specializing in healthcare facility planning and design. He leads AEI Denver’s healthcare practice, overseeing a multi-disciplinary engineering team delivering complex projects for clients up and down the Colorado Front Range. He fosters an integrated approach that facilitates a high level of communication and stakeholder engagement among architects, owners, and contractors – ensuring comprehensive, coordinated design documentation from concept through construction.
Mike Pingel
Mike has more than 30 years of construction experience including 18 years with Turner. Since 2007, he has managed the preconstruction process through all phases of construction for Turner’s healthcare projects. Mike provides support with T-Cost Modeling, project deliverables, historical cost information, life-cycle cost analysis, and knowledge of national healthcare trends. In 2021, Mike was published in the HERD (Health Environments Research & Design) Journal with a national bed tower study that was conducted over 10 years and evaluated 171 hospital bed tower designs. The research is being utilized by Turner to assist healthcare clients right-size their facilities. More recently, Mike presented about innovations in preconstruction at Turner’s annual Innovation Summit in 2024. As the National Preconstruction Executive for Turner’s National Healthcare Group, Mike oversees the preconstruction process, from project inception through the start of construction, for all of Turner’s major healthcare projects across the country. He performs initial estimates, provides proactive value design input, and works with the architect and owner to achieve project goals for budget, schedule, and quality.
James Corbett
James Corbett, JD, MDIV is ethicist and healthcare executive bringing over a decade of behavioral health leadership experience in states across the country. As principal of Initium Health, James works nationwide on behavioral health marketing campaigns, crisis care facilities, opioid settlement funding initiatives, and mental health and substance use disorder related efforts. Mr. Corbett has served as a Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics, and the Nashville Healthcare Council. In addition, he served a 4-year term on the National Institutes of Health’s National Advisory Council for Nursing Research, having been honored to receive the appointment from former Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius. He has also served as Expert Advisor to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and an expert reviewer for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). James’ health system experience comes from serving in four health systems, providing strategic and operational leadership for behavioral health, population health, research operations, global health, advocacy, and ethics. Mr. Corbett earned his Bachelor of Science in International Relations from Syracuse University, his Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University and a Master of Divinity from Duke University.
Lisa Bartlett
Lisa Bartlett is an award-winning architectural lighting designer passionate about creating spaces that support wellness. She has worked as studio lead in both specialty lighting design and multi-disciplinary environments to guide lighting projects as diverse as large hospitals, corporate offices, and civic institutions to successful completion around the country. She currently leads the Colorado office for AKLD Lighting Design, a Chicago-based boutique woman-owned lighting design firm.
As a recognized thought leader in the lighting industry, Lisa is known for bridging the gap between research and design. By utilizing evidence demonstrating the impact of light on human health, she executes innovative lighting solutions that support wellness.
Although Lisa focuses her efforts on lighting design, she is also a licensed architect, nationally certified interior designer, EDAC-certified, and LEED-accredited professional, as well as a professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) and a Certified Lighting Designer (CLD).
She has delivered presentations on lighting and health for IESNA, LightFair, and Environments for Aging, has been part of National Institutes of Health’s Health in Buildings Roundtable, and was featured in the film LD2020: A Story About Lighting Design.
Speakers
Following the success of Turner Construction’s MED Talks series, HDR Architecture, Inc. and Turner are partnering to develop and host a think-tank type event for our industry partners to showcase healthcare design and construction innovations that have been developed to meet the demanding needs of our ever-changing healthcare industry.
We are the conduit for this event to bring creative and like-minded, solution-oriented thinkers together for a half day of sharing and learning from each other. Our Collaborative Innovations in Health event located at CAVEA Theatre on the Metro State University Campus is planned for May 8, 2025 and is in association with the Association of Medical Facility Professionals (AMFP).
Our event will be three hours and broken into six (6) separate 15-minute blocks for industry partners to present in a TED Talks style format to the group of healthcare industry peers and owners.