SmithGroup`s Phil Tobey Appointed to Defense Health Board

WASHINGTON--(Business Wire)--
Senior Vice President Phil Tobey of SmithGroup, one of the largest healthcare
design firms in the nation garnering over 90 healthcare design awards, has
recently been appointed to the Defense Health Board, a Federal Advisory
Committee to the U.S. Secretary of Defense.

The Defense Health Board (DHB) provides recommendations on high quality
healthcare services to Department of Defense beneficiaries. The Board and its
legacy subcommittees have contributed to numerous, significant advances in the
management of disease and injuries among military men and women. Recent efforts
include mental healthcare, DoD healthcare delivery policy, traumatic brain
injury prevention and treatment, and amputee care.

As SmithGroup`s National Healthcare Practice Leader, Tobey recently served as
Principal-in-Charge for the design of two new state-of-the-art rehabilitation
centers for wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The Center for
the Intrepid, located in San Antonio, Texas, features the most sophisticated
amputee rehabilitation technology through the use of advanced prosthetics,
computerized and video monitoring for biomechanical studies, virtual reality,
robotics and simulators. The Center provides specialized spaces for prosthetics
fitting and adjustments, consultation and examination rooms, psychology,
clinical nutritional services, social work, physical and occupational therapy,
gait studies, telemedicine and research.

The National Intrepid Center for Excellence, located at the Walter Reed National
Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, will be a world-class traumatic
brain injury center to support wounded soldiers returning from war providing
imaging, assessment, diagnosis and treatment for mild to moderate traumatic
brain injury (TBI). This facility is currently under construction and will open
in January 2010.

Tobey earned his Masters degree in Architecture from Harvard University and a
Bachelor`s degree in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and has
been with SmithGroup since 1970. Prior to private practice, Tobey served as an
Officer at Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, Office of the Surgeon General with
review responsibility for medical projects worldwide, and where for almost a
year, he was on special assignments to the White House. Since then, Tobey has
been an integral team leader on SmithGroup`s healthcare projects for
governmental agencies including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S.
Army, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers. In recent years, he was named Fellow of the AIA and its
Academy on Architecture for Health and a Fellow and Founder of the American
College of Healthcare Architects.

SmithGroup (www.smithgroup.com) ranks as the nation's 7th largest healthcare
architecture firm (Modern Healthcare, March 2008) and employs 800. The firm is
composed of client industry-focused practices serving the healthcare, higher
education, workplace and science & technology markets. SmithGroup has offices in
Ann Arbor, Mich., Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Madison, Wis.; Minneapolis,
Phoenix, Raleigh-Durham, N.C., San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Established in
1853, SmithGroup is the longest continually operating architecture and
engineering firm in the United States.

SmithGroup, Inc.
Amy Adye, 202-974-4507
amy.adye@smithgroup.com

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