Denver Healthcare Real Estate Summit

Michelle Brokaw is the owner and Chief Executive Officer of Fleisher Smyth Brokaw LLC. She is responsible for the firm's strategic direction, investment strategy, investor relations, and capital sourcing. Ms. Brokaw's real estate career spans more than twenty years and includes experience in commercial real estate acquisition, development, finance, leasing, and asset management. Michelle began working for Fleisher Smyth Company in 1992 and purchased the company from Donald Fleisher and Clark Smyth in 2004 after 15 years with the firm. Early in her career, Michelle worked at the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), focusing on troubled real estate assets left behind by the 1980's Savings and Loan debacle and disposing of some of the most difficult real estate assets in the RTC portfolio. During her career at FSB, Michelle was directly involved or responsible for the acquisition or development of over 40 properties totaling more than 2,000,000 square feet of medical office, office, mixed-use, industrial, retail, and multi-family projects. Moreover, she has collaborated in raising more than $50 million in equity and obtaining more than $150 million in debt, assembling a portfolio valued at more than $200 million. She was a founding member of CREW Denver, Commercial Real Estate Women and elected Chairperson of the organization at age 27. In 2001 she was selected by the Denver Business Journal as a recipient of its prestigious 40 under 40 award. Also in 2001, she served as chair of Brokers Benefiting Kids which has now raised over $2,000,000 to benefit Colorado's children at-risk. She is a member of National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Ms. Brokaw has been a licensed real estate broker in the State of Colorado since 1989. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, Boulder where she majored in real estate and minored in finance and she holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration with a finance emphasis from the University of Denver.

Clint Flanagan, MD, is founder and CEO of Nextera Healthcare and North Vista Medical Center. Nextera Healthcare is Colorado’s first Direct Primary Care (DPC) program, established in 2009. Nextera Healthcare members are assessed an affordable monthly membership fee for unrestricted office visits and virtual consultations with physicians at North Vista Medical Center and affiliate medical practices. Voted “Best of the West Doctors” by readers of YellowScene Magazine, Nextera Healthcare has established a network of clinics throughout Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Florida, Virginia, Wyoming and the Washington DC area. North Vista Medical Center, voted Best Business by the Longmont Times-Call Reader’s Choice Awards, is a primary care hybrid practice in northern Colorado, with locations in Boulder, Frederick and Longmont. Board certified in Family Medicine, a diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine and an actively practicing physician, Dr. Flanagan has been a fixture in Colorado healthcare for more than fifteen years, was named to the Top 20 Who’s Who in Direct Primary Care in the US and was invited in 2019 to be a founding committee member of the Direct Primary Care Mastermind Initiative focusing on serving employers. Dr. Flanagan graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and completed his residency at St. Mary’s Family Medicine Program in Grand Junction, CO. In addition to working as a Family Medicine physician, he has fifteen years of experience as an emergency physician working in many underserved communities throughout Colorado and as far away as Iraq where he served as an officer in the Army Medical Corps. An accomplished healthcare visionary, Dr. Flanagan regularly contributes to policy discussions at the state and federal level to ensure physicians and healthcare providers have ample opportunity to deliver high quality, affordable and accessible care to families and businesses. He has testified on behalf of DPC and has been directly involved in DPC legislation that passed unanimously in Colorado and Nebraska. He sits on the Steering Committee of the National Direct Primary Care Coalition and during their June 2014 Washington DC conference he was invited to discuss DPC at the White House. He has also been invited to present his insights on the emergence and implementation of DPC to a wide range of groups, including medical students, residents and professional associations. His free time is spent enjoying his family and outdoor fitness pursuits in the Colorado Rockies.

Drew Shearer has been providing real estate consulting and development management services to clients and partners for over 30 years. His project experience spans several continents and a majority of US markets. He has participated on real estate transactions in most major product types totaling over $3 billion in project value. In 2002, Drew founded Development Solutions Group (DSG), a full-service medical real estate development firm based in Denver, Colorado. Since its inception, DSG has developed projects valued at over $500 Million, comprising over 1.1 Million square feet of medical space in projects located in Colorado, New Mexico, Wisconsin and Kansas. Drew’s university studies include BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and an MBA from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Drew holds a PMP designation with Project Management Institute and Australian Institute of Project Management and has been a member of many industry organizations and a speaker for industry conferences throughout his career.

You don’t so much see Val Williams as hear her first: a loud laugh, often followed by clapping. Her positive approach to life mirrors her approach to clients: what does each person need, want, must share, care about and how can Val support it? Her philosophy is that we can only understand architecture when we understand the people using it. Her career has been a delightful romp through two decades of healthcare planning and design, spanning lab and imaging renovations to massive multispecialty clinics and greenfield replacement of critical access hospitals in the Western U.S. Val also has conducted management research on architectural intern engagement, project process and team dynamics, and on relationship building at a project’s inception. Her background in stand-up and improv comedy proves helpful in the healthcare design field as well as in presenting at major healthcare conferences and events. Stand-up requires a great deal of preparation and thought into the message and means of presentation, while improv necessitates a mix of mindfulness, flexibility, and quick thinking when projects and situations change. Val brings an appreciation for diverse experiences to the Page Denver office. She moved to the Mile High City in 2000 from Florida, where she received her M. Arch from the University of Florida. Prior to that, she studied architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After receiving her bachelor’s degree from Georgia Tech and her M.Arch from University of Florida, Val moved to Denver, Colorado in 2000. At Page, Val was reunited with a Healthcare colleague from one of her earliest post-graduate roles.

Mary Morissette, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP leads Hord Coplan Macht’s Healthcare Studio in Denver. She is a recognized leader in the design community and has a comprehensive range of skills that allow her to successfully manage all aspects of a project from contract negotiation, programming and budget development through planning, design, construction administration and occupancy. Mary’s 23+ years of experience in Colorado includes work at Banner Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, UCHealth, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver Health Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente. Additionally, she is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, one of the most prestigious honors an architect can achieve. Mary’s involvement in professional organizations incudes the National Council of Architectural Review Boards (NCARB), Past-chair of Colorado’s’ State Licensing Board for Architects, Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors and former president of AIA Colorado.