Boston Healthcare Expansion Forum

Mr. Milligan currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Healthcare Trust of America, Inc., (NYSE:HTA) the largest dedicated owner and operator of medical office buildings in the United States. He has been with HTA since 2012, serving as CFO since 2014. Before joining HTA, Mr. Milligan served as a Vice President at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he worked from July 2007 to January 2012 in its corporate bank, focusing on healthcare clients. He started his career at General Electric Company, serving in various corporate finance capacities within its plastics and advanced materials divisions. Mr. Milligan holds a BS degree in Finance and Economics from Arizona State University and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago.

John Polanowicz is the Executive Vice President of the Hospital Services Group. Mr. Polanowicz previously served as the Secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services from 2013 to 2015 and the President of Steward St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center from 2011 to 2013. He attended the United State Military Academy at West Point and served in the United States Army where he served in a Blackhawk Assault Helicopter Company during overseas military operations. After his military service, he earned a MBA from Stanford.

Andrew Potts is Vice President of Operations for Suffolk’s healthcare group. Andy’s strong expertise and in-depth understanding of healthcare clients and their project objectives has been cultivated through 30 years of experience managing construction projects for numerous high-profile healthcare institutions throughout New England. Past and current clients Andy has worked with include Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. Andy graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Jeffrey’s expertise is the planning and management of large-scale healthcare projects and includes prior experience in development of high rise residential and commercial complexes. Jeffrey is responsible for managing the firm’s Northeast and New England practices, and has extensive experience in team oriented project delivery methods, including Integrated Project Delivery and Collaborative CM at-Risk. With his keen understanding of the challenges in the urban design and construction industry, Jeffrey is a trusted advisor to a broad range of healthcare institutions and has maintained long-standing client relationships. Jeffrey speaks several languages including fluent French, which he put to use while living for a time in Paris.

Dr. Karen Antman became Provost of the Boston University Medical Campus and Dean of the School of Medicine in 2005. She is a National Academy of Medicine (Institute of Medicine) member and currently chairs the American Association of Medical Colleges Council of Deans and serves on the AAMC board of directors. She also serves on the International Editorial Board of Lancet, the Composite Committee of the US Medical Licensing Examination and the executive committee of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. She previously served as Deputy Director for Translational and Clinical Sciences at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, Wu Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Director of the Columbia University Cancer Center and co-director of the New York Presbyterian Hospital cancer care service line, and served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Antman’s team developed now standard regimens for the treatment of sarcomas and mesotheliomas as well as regimens for breast cancer and supportive care for patients receiving chemotherapy including pharmacology, growth factors and mobilization of peripheral blood derived stem cells for marrow transplant. She has authored more than 300 journal papers, (including editorials on medical policy and impediments to clinical research), edited five textbooks, and was elected 1993 Senior Faculty Teacher-of-the-Year by medical residents. She served as President of the: • American Society of Clinical Oncology, • American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplant • American Association for Cancer Research (2003-4). She also served on the Journal of the American Medical Association Oversight Committee, as an associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, and on the Council of the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center. She and her husband, Dr. Elliott Antman, a Harvard professor of cardiology at Brigham and Women’s hospital have a daughter and son, both physicians.

Dr. Steven Strongwater is the President and CEO of Atrius Health, a non-profit accountable care organization with 6,800 employees serving 720,000 patients across eastern Massachusetts and a national leader in delivering high-quality coordinated medical, home health and hospice care.  Dr. Strongwater previously served as Geisinger Health System’s Chief Transformation Officer and Chief Medical Executive for Acquisition Integration. While at Geisinger, he provided transformational leadership developing new models of care, as well as strategies and tactics to improve value, leveraging analytics and simulation tools.   Dr. Strongwater has served also in a variety of leadership positions including Assistant Chancellor, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Chief of Staff and Chief Executive Officer, at UMass Medical Center, the University of Connecticut Health Center and Stony Brook University Medical Center, respectively.  Currently, he serves on the Mass Digital Health Council, IBM Watson Advisory Board, Janssen Healthcare Innovators Council, Healthcare Executives Network, and on the Zetema Project. He has a long standing interest in population health, physician resilience, quality and patient safety.  Dr. Strongwater completed his undergraduate medical education at Upstate Medical Center and a research fellowship in rheumatology at the University of Michigan. He is a member of AOA and Phi Beta Kappa honor societies.

Tobias Barker, M.D. joined CVS MinuteClinic in August of 2011 as Vice President of Medical Operations. He provides clinical oversight for all MinuteClinic operations. This includes management of the nearly 300 medical directors who collaborate with MinuteClinic’s 2400+ Nurse Practioners and Physician Assistants. Current strategic focus is the development of MinuteClinic’s innovative TeleHealth program and the creation of joint clinical programs with our clinical affiliates. Dr. Barker has more than 15 years of experience in medicine. Prior to joining MinuteClinic, Dr. Barker was the Director of Global Programs for the consulting arm of Partners Healthcare and Harvard Medical School. He worked in Dubai for two years, overseeing the development of the emirates premiere medical training facility. Before this, Dr. Barker worked as an attending physician in the department of emergency at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston where he served multiple leadership roles for the hospital including medical director for Gillette stadium and interim medical director for the Boston marathon. Dr. Barker is a graduate of the UCLA School of Medicine and completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at Yale University. He recently received a Masters in Health Care Management degree from Harvard.

Steve Van Ness, AIA, LEED AP, is an Executive Principal in SBA’s Boston’s office. He brings more than 30 years of experience in master plan development, programming, design, leadership, and management to a wide range of complex hospital, healthcare, senior living, and academic projects. Steve works with health care systems in the development of system wide initiatives across a range of settings with complex regulatory requirements. He has served as Project Executive and on new construction and renovation projects for hospitals, community health centers, and urgent care centers throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic states.

Frank Nelson is an Executive Managing Director with NGKF’s Medical/Academic Practice Group in Boston. Over the course of his 36- year career, Frank has been involved in more than seven million square feet of major medical and academic transactions, including the $180 million sale of the Boston Medical Center Portfolio, Boston Children’s Hospital’s purchase of a new 400,000 square foot Waltham campus and its 350,000 square foot Peabody campus, and a host of major land and building acquisitions/sales in the Longwood Medical Area totaling more than four million square feet. In addition, he has negotiated more than 1,500 leases, representing more than 10 million square feet of closed transactions on an agency basis and seven million square feet on a tenant representation basis. Prior to NGKF, Frank served as head of Cushman & Wakefield’s Boston-based Medical/Academic Practice Group and began his real estate career in Cushman & Wakefield’s Chicago office.

Septima Maclaurin is the Director of Business Development for E4H Architecture. E4H is an architecture, planning, and interior design firm focused exclusively on healthcare and health innovation. Formed through the recent merger of three national firms (including the Boston firm MorrisSwitzer Environments for Health) E4H has more than three decades of experience, 5,000 projects completed, and five locations throughout the US. Using her 20 years of business development acumen, Tima creates opportunities for E4H to connect with healthcare organizations looking to create smart, patient-friendly and sustainable built environments in an increasingly competitive market. Tima’s discipline and performance skills, learned from her training as a classically trained flautist, serve her well in her client-facing role. She lives in the Back Bay with her husband and son.