Sheehan

Deb Sheehan is the Healthcare Core Market Leader at DPR Construction, bringing three decades of experience in business management, design, engineering and construction. As a project executive, Deb has overseen the delivery of more than $9.5 billion in investments in design solutions for the built environment. She expanded DPR’s healthcare core market team, elevating the firm’s ability to connect construction, operations, and long-term performance. Her leadership on nationally recognized initiatives, including Kaiser Permanente’s Pre-Engineered Medical Office Building program, has produced measurable improvements in speed, quality, and cost.

Deb is widely regarded as a thought leader who advances how healthcare organizations plan, finance, and deliver facilities. Her insights appear in Modern Healthcare, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal, and she speaks frequently at major industry conferences on capital planning, cost certainty, and care model transformation. She is a contributing author to publications such as Modern Healthcare Magazine, American Business Journal and Becker’s Hospital Review, the National Building Sciences Institute, American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE), and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).

She received her B.A. in Environmental Design/Architecture from Miami University and is an Honors recipient of the University of Wisconsin Business Management Program and Harvard Graduate School of Design.

She is married to Jeff, and they have two children and one grandchild.