Best Practices Advisory Committee
Southwestern Medical District Urban Streetscape & Park Project
In an effort to create a national model for streetscape and park design, we have invited a team of national experts that we feel will bring multiple disciplines to the project that will ensure best practices and state of the art approaches are being considered. The primary purpose of the committee is to capture creative and innovative ideas that will augment and push the contracted design firms, and a full suite of sub-consultants to think beyond the boundaries of standard design and operating procedures. This alliance will allow a partnership that strives for excellence when incorporating evidence-based design, public health, environmental sustainability, economic development, mobility strategies, smart innovation, and art and culture into the project.
64 national experts representing 50 different organizations have given their time to support the creation of a thriving and healthy Medical District for the 21st Century.
Advisory Committee Members
Education and Research

Dr. Shannon Van Zandt
Texas A&M

Lori Delacruz Lewis
Mountain View College

Donald Gatzke
UTA

Samantha Bradley
Texas Trees Foundation

Terri Scannell
Vizient

Dr. Tim Beatley
University of Virginia

Dr. Michelle Kondo
USDA Forest Service

Dr. Chanam Lee
Texas A&M

Dr. Geoffrey Donovan
USDA Forest Service
Environment

Dr. Aaron Roberts
UNT

Michael Carleton
Arredondo, Zepeda & Brunz

Paul Westbrook
RE:source

Zach Wirtz
Texas Trees Foundation

Gretchen Riley
Texas A&M Forest Service

Chariss York
Texas AgriLife Extension

David Marquis
Consultant

Dr. Fouad Jaber
Texas A&M

Matt Weaver
Texas Tech

Dr. Kathy Jack
The Nature Conservancy

Donald Gatzke
UTA

Dr. Robert Brown
Texas A&M

David Richardson
UT Southwestern
Arts and Humanities

David Marquis
Consultant

Adriane Bulthuis
Previously Perot Museum

David Preziosi
Preservation Dallas
Economic Development

Conners Ladner
Design Workshop

Larry Speck
UT & Page Southerland Page

Carlton Schwab
TX Ec Dev Council

Dr. Daniel Oney
Newmark Knight Frank

Eric Griffin
Dallas Regional Chamber

Dustin Bullard
Downtown Dallas, Inc.

Lara Moffat
Landscape Forms

Tipton Housewright
OMNIPLAN
Operations

Jessica Burnham
SMU

Willis Winters
Retired Director of Dallas Parks & Rec

Michael Hellman
Retired Director of Sacramento Parks

Adriane Bulthuis
Previously Perot Museum

Dr. Bruce Brown
UT Southwestern

Major Catrina Shead
Dallas Police

Lieutenant Kevin Campell
Dallas Police

Kevin Oden
COD, Homeless Solutions

Chief Marlin Suell
Parkland

Reginald Christian
Children’s Medical Center

Captain Richard Roebuck
Parkland