Andrew Stringfellow, MS, MA, serves as the Executive Director of Planning for Keck Medicine, the health system of the University of Southern California. Since arriving at USC in 2012, Andrew has participated in the acquisition and integration of USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, and led master planning efforts for that campus. Over the last several years he has led design and programming efforts for over a dozen outpatient clinics and treatment centers with an additional nine set to open this year. In January 2018, he opened the 120K sf Norris Healthcare Center, the first new clinical building on USC’s Health Sciences Campus in almost 15 years. He has also lead the feasibility studies in preparation an upcoming planning effort for a new inpatient tower at the Health Sciences Campus, as well as substantial hospital renovation and upgrade projects across the system. In addition to physical planning efforts, Andrew also leads strategic planning efforts for the health system, including an enterprise-wide strategic plan. One of his chief areas of focus has been to bring data-driven decision-making to space and design planning efforts.
Prior to joining USC, Andrew served as the Principal Organizational Planner for UC San Diego Health which he joined in 2007; there he was involved in designing and building the Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center and Jacobs Medical Center. Prior to joining UC San Diego Health, Andrew worked and studied for over a dozen years in academic research focusing on cognitive neuroscience and has been a contributing author on multiple scholarly publications. He has spent time in research at the Boston and San Diego VA hospitals, and managed a magnetoencephalography research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Andrew earned a BA degree in History cum laude from Boston University. He also holds a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from Boston University, and a Master of Science in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego.