National Healthcare Expansion & Innovation Series

Richard Miller

President & CEO - Virtua Health System

Since 1998, Richard P. Miller has served as president and CEO of Virtua, a non-profit healthcare system offering a full continuum of primary, preventative, wellness, acute and long-term care Miller has led Virtua in innovative directions by creating a values-based culture defined by the "Star Initiative," adopting Six Sigma, and transforming a group of community-based hospitals into technologically advanced regional medical centers. In addition to an enterprise alliance with GE Healthcare, Virtua has formed clinical alliances with nationally renowned organizations such as Penn Medicine and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Miller has been recognized nationally with appointments to the Leadership Advisory Council of the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare (CTH) and to the Governing Council of Healthcare Executives for the American Hospital Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and serves as a trustee of the National Quality Forum.

Mary McGowan

CEO - WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease

With over 35 years of non-profit management experience, Mary McGowan currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease. As the primary representative and spokesperson for this national 35,000 member patient advocacy organization serving women living with and at risk for heart disease, McGowan ensures successful implementation of the strategic direction and increases WomenHeart's visibility and brand recognition among key audiences nationally. McGowan joined WomenHeart in September of 2010 as Chief Operating Officer to ensure the organization’s long term growth and sustainability. McGowan provided leadership and day-to-day oversight of WomenHeart’s main components including fundraising, resource development, communications, marketing, programs and public policy. She created and implemented WomenHeart's National Hospital Alliance, comprised of hospitals committed to advancing women's heart health – a partnership with hospitals nationwide that seeks to ensure that women heart disease patients in every community have access to information, education and patient support services. Prior to joining WomenHeart, Mary served as Executive Director of the Allergy & Asthma Network, the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating suffering and death due to asthma, allergies and related conditions. She held various positions with the American Academy of Pediatrics during her service of 18 years. Following the events of 9/11, she was project director on multiple emergency preparedness grants focusing on the needs of children. McGowan earned a Masters Degree in Human Resources Development from the George Washington University and a B.A. from Trinity University. She has a congenital heart disorder, a patent foramen ovale (PFO), also known as a hole in her heart, causing a minor stroke in 2010.

Paul Kempinski

Enterprise VP & President - Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children

Paul D. Kempinski, MS, FACHE, serves as Enterprise Vice President and President of Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children (N/AIDHC) in Wilmington, Del. Kempinski, who joined Nemours in 2003, is responsible for the daily operations of N/AIDHC, a 200-bed referral hospital, a Magnet-designated hospital that is recognized among the top children’s hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and the Leapfrog Group. Kempinski previously served as Operational Vice President for Nemours Children’s Health System and Chief Operating Officer of Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children.

Michael Prilutsky

COO - Jersey City Medical Center

As the Chief Operating Officer I am responsible for all aspects of the operation of Jersey City Medical Center. My goal is to insure the safest and highest quality care for our patients, excellent interaction with families and visitors, community engagement, and staff satisfaction, including the Medical-Dental Staff.

Ben Ochs

CEO - Anchor Health Properties

Ben Ochs is CEO of Anchor Health Properties and is based in the firm’s Charlottesville, VA, offices. Mr. Ochs has spent the majority of this career in the Development, Ownership, Operations, Financing, Asset Management, Leasing, Acquisition and Disposition of Healthcare Real Estate to hospitals, physician practice groups, and private and institutional healthcare real estate investors throughout the Southeast. Previous to that, Mr. Ochs served as a Financial and Underwriting Analyst at a boutique consulting firm.

Guy Leibler

President - Simone Healthcare Development

Mr. Leibler has 35 years of experience in the real estate industry. He began his career at Schulman Realty Group in 1978 and became President and Chief Executive Officer in 1987, a position he held until 1992. Mr. Leibler joined Sony Corporation in 1993, where he led the development of new business platforms for Sony operating groups. In 1997, Mr. Leibler was elected Chairman of White Plains Hospital, where he had served as a director since 1988. He led a repositioning of the $350 million annual revenue hospital by developing a cancer treatment center, expanding the maternity program to include a neo-natal intensive care unit, creating an orthopedic institute, and laying the groundwork for a cardiac center. He served as Chairman of the Board for five years and continues to serve White Plains Hospital as a Chairman Emeritus. In 2001, Mr. Leibler was named president and Chief Operating Officer of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in 2001 making design excellence and project management the firm’s priority. He joined L&L Holding Company as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer in 2004. The Manhattan based real estate investment company focused on purchasing and repositioning office properties. Mr. Leibler graduated from American University with a degree in political science and international affairs and received a Master’s in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.

John Thomas

President & CEO - Physicians Realty Trust

John T. Thomas is President and Chief Executive Officer of Physicians Realty Trust and has served on the board of trustees since August 2013. Thomas was the Executive Vice President-Medical Facilities Group for Health Care REIT Inc. (NYSE: “HCN”) from January 2009 to July 2012 where his group was responsible for growing total net investments for HCN’s medical facilities division, including hospitals, medical office buildings and life science research facilities from $2.3 billion in assets to approximately $5 billion. Thomas’ group expanded HCN’s medical office building portfolio from 128 properties to 210 properties with rentable square feet growing from 5.6 million to 13 million and the percentage of medical office buildings affiliated with healthcare delivery systems growing from 62% to approximately 90% and occupancy for the medical office buildings improved from 90% to almost 94% during this period. The medical facilities division’s annualized net operating income increased from $131 million to more than $350 million while Thomas led HCN’s medical facilities division.

Mark Davis

Principal - The Davis Group

Mark A. Davis is considered the foremost expert on medical real estate in the Twin Cities market area. With over twenty-five years of experience and 6,000,000 sq. ft. of medical leasing sales, development, construction and consulting projects in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan market, Mark has established himself as the leading medical real estate broker and developer in Minnesota and the upper Midwest. Past and present clients have included individual physicians, multi-specialty medical groups, hospitals, large healthcare organizations and HMO’s. In addition, the firm has represented numerous corporate clients in the sale, purchase, development or leasing of office and industrial facilities.

James Schmid, III

CIO - Anchor Health Properties

Cheri Clarke Doyle

SVP - Trammell Crow Company

Cheri Clarke Doyle serves as Senior Vice President for Trammell Crow Company in the firm’s Philadelphia Business Unit. In this role she is responsible for sourcing and overseeing new Healthcare, Wellness and Science development in the Northeast United States. Doyle held various leadership positions within the Healthcare Industry for over 18 years. Prior to joining TCC, she served as Regional Account Executive and Principal Broker with Hammes Company in the Northeast United States. During her career she has specialized in Healthcare Management, Senior Living, Strategic Planning, and Real Estate Development. Doyle is a licensed Real Estate Broker and a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

George Hurley

Healthcare Core Market Leader - DPR Construction

George Hurley, DPR’s national healthcare core market leader, has 33 years of experience in the engineering and construction of healthcare, education, commercial, microelectronics, and mission critical projects. His extensive background and technical expertise in project evaluation, financial management, scheduling, and strategic planning has led to the successful execution of many large scale projects. George is passionate about executing projects utilizing integrated project delivery (IPD), incorporating building information modeling (BIM) and Lean construction principles. He’s a proven healthcare and mission critical leader and executed several large scale projects in California and Arizona. Most recently, George served as project executive on the $700M, 521,000 sq.-ft. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Expansion Phase II at Stanford University. George is a graduate of Montana State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering. Since joining DPR Construction in 1997, he has helped change the way large projects are set up and executed. He also achieved LEED® Accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council. George is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Golden Gate Chapter, in San Francisco; the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) and the Society for College and University Planning(SCUP).

John Trabold

Managing Director - VMG Health

Mike Noto

SVP - Welltower

John Soraci

Project Manager - EwingCole

John is a licensed architect with 30 years of professional experience leading the planning and project management of major healthcare, science + technology, education, and corporate projects in the New York metropolitan area totaling over 20 million gross square feet. John is recognized for communicating and providing design and vendor service quality while delivering millions of dollars of pre-construction cost savings through strong bid negotiation skills and prioritized value engineering.

Joan Saba

Partner - NBBJ

Joan Saba is leader of NBBJ’s healthcare design practice, the second-largest healthcare architecture firm in the world and named one of the most innovative by Fast Company. She brings more than 30 years of expertise and strategic vision to all types of healthcare projects, with a focus on academic medical centers, pediatric and teaching hospitals.  Joan’s expertise in translating current and future programmatic and operational needs into effective healing environments is applied to projects of diverse scales. She recently led the healthcare planning and design efforts on the Kimmel Pavilion at New York University’s Langone Medical Center and a medical center at the American University of Beirut. Her recent work on the Massachusetts General Hospital Lunder Building won numerous design and industry awards, including a National Healthcare Design Award from the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health.  She is a frequent speaker at events focused on the future of medicine, including Stanford Medicine X, the Economist Health Care Forum, the Vanderbilt University Health Care Conference, the Academy of Architecture for Health, Harvard University Graduate School of Design's Executive Education Program and the Symposium of Healthcare Design. Her work and insight have been featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, China Business Weekly, Architect’s Journal and Healthcare Design.

Don Clinton

Partner - Cooper Robertson

Donald Clinton, AIA, MRAIC, LEED AP, has broad experience addressing urban design and architectural challenges at all scales. He joined Cooper Robertson in 1985, became a partner in the firm in 1995, and is a member of the firm’s management committee. He leads the firm’s collaborations with medical and research institutions, including Duke University Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Research Triangle Park, and NYU Polytechnic. He has also led mixed-use development and multi-family residential planning projects on significant sites in the five boroughs and across North America. Don has represented private and institutional development clients before the New York City Planning Commission and led complex projects through their planning and entitlement phases, including the Fordham University Lincoln Center campus, Hudson Yards, Domino Sugar, and the Lincoln Center Constituent Development Plan. He has also conducted master planning assignments for public agencies, including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Before joining Cooper Robertson, Don worked in Toronto, Los Angeles, and London, and earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto. He has taught urban design as a visiting instructor at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Virginia. He is a registered architect in nine states and Canada and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Daniel Klein

Consultant - Physicians Realty Trust

Dan Klein joined Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC) in 2016. Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE:DOC) is a self-managed healthcare real estate investment trust that acquires, owns and manages healthcare properties that are leased to physicians, hospitals and healthcare delivery systems and other healthcare providers. Dan’s role at Physicians Realty Trust includes working alongside the other DOC executives in the strategy, pursuit and execution of targeted acquisition opportunities that meet the company’s objectives.

Nisan Gertz

Senior Partner - Macro Consultants

Nisan has earned a reputation as one of the most creative and strategic minds in the industry. A licensed architect with more than 20 years of experience, his knowledge includes strategic planning, master planning, project design and development, construction/contract administration, budgeting and project financial management. Nisan’s expertise is scalable from large complex capital project management to small developments. His success in leading and mentoring others is clearly evident in the teams he has grown. Nisan has specialized in the real estate market for most of his career. As an officer with the architecture firm of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK Architects), his responsibilities included the planning, design, documentation, and construction administration of healthcare and research facilities. At HOK, Nisan designed state‐of‐the‐art facilities for projects ranging from expansive 4.1 million square foot academic medical and research campuses to small‐scale clinics and laboratories. Next, as a Vice President with Skanska USA Building, Inc., Nisan formed, managed and grew a new division of the company, Skanska’s Northeasthealthcare practice. Under Nisan’s leadership, the region managed over $1.1 billion in capital projects in 2006 alone. Building on his experiences with Skanska and HOK, Nisan established the Northeast regional healthcare practice for Jones Lang LaSalle, where he served as its National Director before joining Macro in 2011. As one of three members of Macro’s Senior Leadership Team, Nisan is responsible for overseeing the company’s portfolio of projects, fiscal health and strategic direction. Key Projects: Bank Street College of Education; Capital Health; Coney Island Hospital; Duff & Phelps; NYU Langone Medical Center; Penn State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center; Reckitt Benckiser; Saint Peter’s University Hospital; Sanofi; The Rockefeller University; Winthrop University Hospital.

Jay Johnson

Managing Director, Healthcare - Transwestern

Jay leads solutions development for Healthcare Advisory Services at Transwestern, providing strategies to enhance healthcare real estate performance and contribution to client mission and business objectives. Solutions include consulting and analytic services related to asset strategy, acquisition, disposition, capitalization, operations and maintenance for hospitals, medical office, outpatient clinics and other healthcare property types. Jay also leads internal operations for Transwestern’s Healthcare Advisory Services practice group, which includes development of service capabilities and implementation of best practices across all Transwestern geographic and functional sectors serving healthcare clients. Prior to Transwestern, Jay held positions at CBRE, Ernst & Young, Central Atlanta Progress and the US Army.

Ben Appel

Director - HFF

Mr. Appel is a Director in HFF’s Philadelphia office and a member of HFF’s national healthcare practice. He focuses primarily on the sale and financing of medical office buildings, physician and hospital monetization’s, re-capitalizations and joint venture equity, along the eastern seaboard, with an emphasis on the Philadelphia MSA, the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Mr. Appel joined the firm in 2015. Prior to joining HFF, he worked at Marcus & Millichap where he was a Director of their Healthcare Properties Group. He has advised clients including public and private REITs, pension fund advisors, healthcare systems, fund managers, private equity, family real estate offices, and local and regional developers of medical office properties in excess of $1 billion.

Hilda Flower Martin

Principal - Revista

As one of the founders of Revista, Hilda is responsible for developing client relationships and overseeing ongoing data collection, reporting and analysis. In this role, Hilda also regularly contributes to industry media and presents at industry events. Revista is the first dedicated data resource for the medical real estate industry and provides focused healthcare property data, industry information and networking opportunities. Prior to Revista, Hilda was the lead business developer for the NIC MAP Data and Analysis Service at the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry (NIC) - the premier provider of supply and performance data for that sector. During her tenure at NIC, she generated more than $2 million in new, recurring revenue and increased the subscriber base by over 50%. Prior to NIC, Hilda was a business development professional for Carteret Mortgage where she was recognized as the top producer in her group. She began her career at the Knox Financial Group in Baltimore.