Business Briefs: Tsoi/Kobus & Associates

Words: Bronzella Cleveland

Summer 2009
Industry News

Business Briefs: Tsoi/Kobus & Associates

Tsoi/Kobus & Associates (TK&A) announced that Jocelyn Frederick, AIA, ACHA, OAA, LEED AP has joined the firm as a principal. Frederick will lead TK&A’s core national healthcare practice, and enhance and extend its capabilities in planning and design for academic medical centers. Frederick is internationally known for her expertise in complex healthcare planning and facility design for leading institutions throughout the United States and abroad, including The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Rush University Medical Center, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Egyptian Air Force Hospital. She comes to TK&A from the Chicago office of Perkins + Will, where she was a principal since 1995. MD

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