Kahler Slater: Mary Le Johnson joins as co-team leader of academic health sciences practice

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Mary Le Johnson Joins Kahler Slater as Co-Team Leader of Academic Health Sciences Practice

Architecture and Experience Design Firm Expanding its Medical Education Practice

MILWAUKEE – Architecture and experience design firm Kahler Slater has hired Mary Le Johnson, AIA, ASID as an additional team leader of the firm’s Academic Health Sciences Team. She will help guide the continued growth of Kahler Slater’s nationally recognized medical and health sciences education practice, focusing on team leadership, project development and business development.

“We are thrilled that Mary Le has joined us at this exciting time,” said Co-CEO George Meyer. “Our clients and our team will benefit from her proven leadership skills, her passion for meeting the specialized needs of academic sciences and health sciences programs, and her collaborative approach to bringing clients’ visions to life through creative planning and design.”

Johnson will work from a regional office in Houston.

Johnson brings more than 20 years of experience in leading the planning and design of research, science and health sciences educational facilities for some of the nation’s preeminent higher education institutions. This will be a strong complement to Kahler Slater’s existing national specialty practice area dedicated to planning and designing higher education facilities – particularly academic health sciences facilities. That practice is growing significantly, said firm Co-CEO Jim Rasche, as colleges and universities develop and expand programs to meet the need to educate more physicians, nurses, dentists and other health care professionals.

Previously, Johnson was a project executive with EYP Architecture & Engineering and a principal and education studio leader with WHR Architects (now part of EYP) in Houston.

Among the notable projects Johnson has led are several facilities on the renowned Texas Medical Center campus in Houston – the largest medical complex in the world. They include the expansion of the University of Texas McGovern Medical School and new facilities for the Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing, the University of St. Thomas Center for Science and Health Professions (due to be completed in spring 2017), and three facilities for the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston – the University of Texas School of Dentistry, the Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences Building, and the Cooley University Life Center.

Johnson has a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Houston, a bachelor’s degree in art education from the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and a professional degree in interior design from El Centro College in Dallas.

Johnson is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), the Texas Society of Architects, the U.S. Green Building Council and the Rice Design Alliance.