Rebecca Boylan 2012

Name: Rebecca Boylan, AIA, ACHA, LEED, AP Title: Senior Architect Company: SMRT- Architects and Engineers Location: Andover, MA; Portland, ME; Albany, NY; Keene, NH; Alexandria, VA Place of birth: Atlanta, GA Family: Husband- John Boylan, PHD, director of NMR Center at BC College: March-Georgia Institute of Technology First job unrelated to your current field: Server at local ice cream stand First job in your current field: Summers and holidays with firm in Chattanooga, TN: James M. Franklin, Architect What your firm does now and its plans for the future? As a full service architecture and engineering firm, SMRT assists healthcare; controlled environments and manufacturing; private/higher education; government and corporate clients develop facilities that support their mission. SMRT's healthcare design team strategizes with and supports our clients' master planning efforts while designing operationally lean medical facilities-whether a hospital of the future, ambulatory care centers, operating platforms, medical office buildings, medical simulation centers, laboratories, and patient centered medical homes. Hobbies: Sailing, gardening Favorite film: Metropolis Favorite novel: Moby Dick Keys to success: Listen well If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Urban farmer/community organizer strengthening neighborhoods by providing healthy activity and improving environment Person you admire most (outside of the family): Irma Goertzen, past CEO of Magee Women's Hospital, who provided leadership to women in all that she did-contributing women's health through education, policy development, research and clinical care and providing women with opportunity to succeed.