Gensler Expands Healthcare Leadership in New York and Welcomes Christopher Korsh

New York — Leading global architecture and design firm Gensler announced today the addition of Christopher Korsh, AIA, as a Healthcare Practice Leader in its New York office. Korsh brings extensive experience advising health systems and institutions on complex capital projects, with a focus on aligning design outcomes with clinical performance, long-term flexibility, and operational efficiency.

Over the course of his career, Korsh has served as a trusted partner to many of the country’s leading healthcare organizations, including New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Harlem Hospital Center, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center. His project experience spans the full continuum of care and includes cancer centers, academic medical facilities, and hospital replacements across New York, New Jersey, Texas, Rhode Island, and Ohio.

At a time when healthcare providers are under pressure to deliver more with less, Korsh brings a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach that keeps patient, staff, and community needs at the center of the design process. He is known for guiding clients through complex decisions around scope, phasing, and budget while helping organizations stay focused on long-term goals like adaptability, workforce support, and patient experience.

“Chris brings over 25 years of experience delivering advanced healthcare projects across the globe, a perspective he will apply to drive Gensler’s healthcare practice, the fastest growing in the industry, to new heights,” says Jim Crispino, Global Healthcare Leader at Gensler. “Having led multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex projects across all healthcare typologies, Chris brings an innovation-focused mindset sought after by the healthcare industry as community-focused health and personalized care create profound opportunities to help reshape healthcare.”

The addition of Korsh marks a continued investment in Gensler’s healthcare practice, which has grown significantly in recent years and now delivers projects across every healthcare typology — from academic medical centers to outpatient clinics and wellness campuses. Recent work includes the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Data Center and Medical Simulation Facility, in Columbus, Ohio; the Summit Health Multispecialty Hub in Clifton, New Jersey; and the Mass General Brigham Integrated Care Facility in Salem, New Hampshire. Korsh’s addition expands the firm’s ability to support clients in the Northeast and nationally with insight-driven planning and design that balances clinical needs, operational priorities, and community impact.

“I am honored to be leading the Gensler healthcare team in New York and feel invigorated by the impact we’re poised to make across the country,” says Korsh. “As our healthcare practice continues to grow, we will leverage Gensler’s 60-year foundation of design strategy, and research expertise to improve patient outcomes, position physicians to do their best work, and envision a new future for healthcare.”

About Gensler

At Gensler, the value of our work stems from its positive impact on the human experience. We are a dynamic and collaborative design firm uniting creativity, research, and innovation to solve complex problems for our clients. Our work challenges conventional ideas about architecture and the built environment. We aren’t just designing buildings — we are reimagining cities and places that make a difference in people’s lives. Founded in 1965, Gensler has built a team of 6,000 professionals who partner with clients in over 100 countries each year. Everything we do is guided by our mission: to create a better world through the power of design.