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Darren M. Lizzack photo Darren M. Lizzack, MSRE, Associate Vice President, NAI James E. Hanson
Mr. Lizzack has the skills and knowledge required to provide Landlords, Tenants, Developers, and Investors with pertinent information and strategic advice in order to assist them in making the most informed real estate decisions. His background in Finance and Economics coupled with expertise and knowledge he has gained from working with experienced real estate professionals including, but not limited to the students, faculty, and alumni at New York University, and also NAI affiliated members gives Mr. Lizzack access to one of the largest pools of real estate resources in the world.
Scott Fishbone photo Scott Fishbone, Principal, Atkins Realty Group
Scott Fishbone is a Principal with The Atkins Realty Group, LLC, the development subsidiary of the Atkins Companies, a privately held real estate development and management firm, which has completed over one million square feet of medical and professional office space, retail centers, multi-family residential and custom single family homes. Scott is responsible for acquisitions, financial analyses, and approvals and entitlements for all of Atkins’ projects. Prior to Atkins, Scott was Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Advance Residential Communities, the residential subsidiary of Advance Realty Group, a commercial and residential real estate development, investment and management firm.
Darryl Freling photo Darryl Freling, Managing Principal, MedProperties Holdings, LLC
Mr. Freling is a co-founder and a Managing Principal of MedProperties Holdings, LLC. Mr. Freling has 25 years’ experience in the areas of both corporate and real estate investment (private and public), real estate development and management, complex business structures and finance. From 2001 – 2006, Mr. Freling served as the founder and president of Cascade Realty LLC, a real estate investment firm. From 1997 until leaving the company in September 2001, Mr. Freling worked, and performed a number of diverse roles including director of acquisitions, for Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, where he was responsible for $300 million in real estate acquisitions in the Western United States.
Matthew Enstice photo Matthew Enstice, President & Executive Director, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
Mr. Enstice is Executive Director of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. He has been with the BNMC since its creation in 2001, when he assumed a leadership position. At the time, he was a consultant with Niagara Consulting Group, a Western New York firm with a focus on urban planning and healthcare. Before that, through his position with Niagara Falls Redevelopment LLC, Mr. Enstice managed the Fixed Base Operations at the Niagara Falls International Airport, and oversaw the Niagara Falls Civic and Convention Center. Prior to returning home to Buffalo in 1998, he worked in the entertainment industry, in Los Angeles and New York City, including work on the movie Lassie and Saturday Night Live.
Daniel Mee photo Daniel O. Mee, Executive Director, Tremont Realty Capital
Mr. Mee is a founder and Executive Director of Tremont Realty Capital, LLC. He oversees company operations, banking relationships and serves on the Investment Committee. Mr. Mee has over 29 years in the real estate industry. Prior to founding Tremont, he was a Senior Director with Finova Realty Capital, an international finance company, where he generated debt and equity transactions with major real estate developers. Previously, he was a Regional Manager with The Rhodes Capital Company, a real estate investment banking firm based in Manhattan. At Rhodes he managed the conventional and high-yield financing business on private/public debt programs.
George J. Rerat photo George J. Rerat, Senior Vice President – Acquisitions, AEI Fund Management, Inc.
Mr. Rerat leads all AEI acquisitions departmental functions, including tenant and market research, developing and maintaining relationships, negotiation of acquisitions, oversight of due diligence and closing process. Prior to joining AEI, he served in various senior level real estate financing, development, acquisition and disposition roles. During his career, Mr. Rerat has had direct responsibility for real estate development, financing, acquisition and dispositions in excess of $2.0 Billion.
Peter Pitsiokos photo Peter Pitsiokos, COO and Chief Compliance Officer, Gyrodyne Company of America
In addition to his other responsibilities at Gyrodyne, Peter Pitsiokos oversees medical office building sourcing, due diligence, financing and acquisition. Gyrodyne, a New York based publicly traded REIT, (NASDAQ: “GYRO”) recently acquired its first out-of-state medical office property in the metro-Washington, D.C. market. Mr. Pitsiokos led the Company’s strategic initiative in 2005 to shift focus from industrial to health care real estate assets. Mr. Pitsiokos has also provided executive direction in operations, property management, marketing and leasing Gyrodyne’s portfolio. Mr. Pitsiokos is currently leading the Company’s development of a 350-unit restricted age community on Long Island.
Philip Mahler photo Phil Mahler, Senior Vice President, Savills US
Mr. Mahler is a Senior Vice President with Savills US (formerly Granite Partners) with over 17 years of real estate investment banking, development, acquisition and disposition experience. Over the last eight years, Mr. Mahler has executed or is currently involved in more than $3.5 billion in medical real estate transactions totaling more than 15 million square feet including investment sales, portfolio sales, joint ventures, recapitalizations and development transactions.

Speakers

Frank Nelson photo Frank J. Nelson, Executive Director, Cushman & Wakefield
Mr. Nelson has been involved in over 4.8 million square feet of major medical and academic research transactions since 2003. The most significant transactions include: assisting Children’s Hospital in its purchase of the new 400,000 square foot Waltham campus, as well as major land and building acquisitions in the core LMA area totaling over 3.5 million square feet. In addition, Mr. Nelson has represented either the tenant or landlord on over 500,000 square feet of leases with Joslin Diabetes Center, Children’s Hospital, The Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Ai New England, and The Institute of Healthcare Improvement.
John Thomas photo John Thomas, EVP, Medical Facilities, Health Care REIT, Inc.
John T. Thomas oversees investment in state-of-the-art hospitals, outpatient facilities and medical office buildings, as well as provides executive leadership of the company’s Development Services Group and Management Services Group. He joined the management team in January 2009. Prior to joining Health Care REIT, Inc., Mr. Thomas served from July 2005 to December 2008 as President and Chief Development Officer of Cirrus Health, Dallas, TX, where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of nationwide development of new surgical facilities for the company. Mr. Thomas served from October 2000 to July 2005 as Senior Vice President – General Counsel for Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, TX.
Michael Dubin photo Michael Dubin, Principal, Savitt Partners
Michael directs brokerage leasing and sales while overseeing building agency representation for properties owned and managed by Savitt Partners. He brings a multi-disciplined background and strong owner/operator mentality to the firm, significantly benefiting both clients and acquisition partners. Over the course of his career, Michael has facilitated transactions on the brokerage side in excess of five million square feet – and has maintained a portfolio of approximately six million square feet of space.
Edward Midgley photo Edward E. Midgley, Senior Vice President, CB Richard Ellis | Investment Properties
Edward E. Midgley plays an active production role providing strategic real estate advisory and brokerage services to public and private sector clients. He is highly skilled in the development and execution of entity-level transactions, portfolio dispositions and tax-deferred exit strategies. Mr. Midgley’s professional experience includes commercial real estate research, acquisitions, lending and investment banking. Previously, he was a member Insignia/ESG’s Consulting Group and subsequently moved to the Capital Advisors Group, where he worked on and led numerous high-profile transaction teams.
Brent Tharp photo Brent Tharp, SVP, Originations, GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services
At GE Capital, HFS, Mr. Tharp originates debt for medical office buildings and hospital real estate throughout the United States. Prior to joining GE Capital – HFS, Mr. Tharp was Director of Originations at Hanover Financial Company, where he was responsible for the firm’s equity and mezzanine debt transactions in California and other western states. Tharp was previously a Vice President and Originator for JP Morgan Mortgage Capital (“JPMMC”), a division of JP Morgan Chase. At JPMMC, he was responsible for originating fixed and floating-rate debt for commercial properties.
Thomas Tift photo Thomas W. Tift, III, President & CEO, HealthAmerica Realty Group
Tommy Tift is the President, CEO and Founder of HealthAmerica Realty Group, L.L.C., a 10 -year old Atlanta based real estate company that specializes in Medical Office Buildings. HealthAmerica currently has management and leasing assignments for over 1,500,000 square feet of medical office space across the Sunbelt with employees in offices in Atlanta, Tampa, and Southern California (Aliso Viejo). HealthAmerica’s clients include the major healthcare REITs, hospitals/health systems, physicians, institutional investors and individual investors who own medical office buildings.
Brian Tilton photo Brian Tilton, Manager, Real Estate Investments, Ventas, Inc.
Brian Tilton is a Manager, Real Estate Investments at Ventas, Inc. and he is responsible for the origination, analysis, underwriting and execution of healthcare-related investments throughout the country.Brian has closed equity and debt investments related to healthcare real estate in excess of $130 million. Prior to joining Ventas, Brian was an Equity Research Analyst with Robert W. Baird & Co., where he performed investment analysis on a diverse group of small & mid-cap companies.
Allan Brown photo Allan R. Brown, Jr., President, Prevarian Hospital Partners
Allan Brown has focused on the planning and development of healthcare facilities since 1992. His experience covers a broad spectrum of medical real estate and involves the financing, planning, and development of hospitals, medical office buildings, cancer centers, diagnostic imaging centers, and ambulatory surgery centers for national not-for-profit and for-profit Hospital systems, operators, and physicians. As co- founder of Prevarian Hospital Partners, Allan is dedicated to evaluating and implementing real estate financing and development strategies that best serve the needs of hospital systems.
Andrew Lawler photo Andrew Lawler, Development Partner, Healthcare, The Keith Corporation
Andrew J. Lawler is a development partner at The Keith Corporation (TKC) with over 20 years of experience in development, consulting, planning, design and construction of public and private healthcare facilities valued at over $0.5 billion. His expertise lies in feasibility and planning, financial structuring, development planning and medical office space marketing and leasing. Prior to joining TKC, Mr. Lawler was the Vice President of Healthcare Development for the East Region of Lauth where he developed over one million square feet of medical space. His extensive experience also includes working for Hammes Company, one of the nation’s leading healthcare facility developers.
Thomas Ahern photo Thomas P. Ahern, SVP, Capital Markets & Healthcare, The Saint Consulting Group
Tom Ahern oversees Saint Consulting’s work in the health care industry and with investment firms, banks, private equity firms and Real Estate Investment Trusts involved in development projects.Since joining Saint in 2001, Tom has served as a project manager, division manager and regional vice president. Prior to assuming his current position, he was responsible for operations in the Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Tampa divisions of Saint Consulting, overseeing four division managers and 18 project managers.
Edward Brickley photo Edward Brickley, Senior Vice President, LaSalle Investment Management
Mr. Brickley is currently a Senior Vice President for LaSalle Investment Management and is the Medical Office Fund II acquisition officer. In this role, he serves as a liaison between LaSalle’s acquisitions group and the fund. He is responsible for sourcing transactions, overseeing underwriting and due diligence and coordinating the financing, closing and transition of fund investments.
James Schrim photo James D. Schrim, III, COO, Klingbeil Medical Partners, LLC
Jim has been with the Klingbeil Organization since 2002. Over the last five years, Jim has been responsible for the day-to-day operations of KMP and the Klingbeil Organization medical office business since its inception and has provided strategic direction and oversight related to the acquisition, repositioning, operation, management and partial disposition of a $100 million portfolio of medical office buildings. He also serves as a Vice President for Klingbeil Capital Management Ltd.
George Kimmerle photo George J. Kimmerle, Partner, Kimmerle Newman Architects
A graduate of Washington University and the University of Michigan, Mr. Kimmerle has been practicing architecture and planning since 1976. He has held various public and professional positions throughout his career and has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations. Mr. Kimmerle maintains teaching posts at New York University and Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, where he is currently completing a dissertation in community imaging, urban branding and redevelopment techniques that emphasize the repositioning of communities from both economic and quality of life perspectives.
CJ Follini photo C.J. Follini, Publisher, Blackswan Webzine
Mr. Follini is the Founder and Publisher of BLACKSWAN – an innovative news and interview webzine discussing alternative real estate investment assets such as: Healthcare real estate; media infrastructure; student housing; and fractional hospitality. Mr. Follini has 25 years of experience in real estate investment and building in the U.S. and Canada. He founded every company he has been involved with and he has extensive experience in the acquisition, development and management of several types of real estate including: healthcare real estate; commercial office; media production infrastructure; industrial; and senior housing.
Marie Fredrick photo Marie Fredrick, VP, Properties and Ambulatory Services, Mary Washington Healthcare
Marie Fredrick has worked in healthcare in a variety of areas for over 30 years. Ms. Fredrick started her career as a radiologic technologist outside Philadelphia, Pa. She began to teach radiology students and moved on to a full-time educator program not far from where she completed her own training. Ms. Fredrick has responsibility for the approximately 200 acres of Mary Washington Healthcare real estate. Real estate holdings include, in addition to two hospitals, nine wholly owned buildings and six joint ventured buildings. She has worked with both physician partners as well as commercial partners.
Michael Goldenberg photo Michael P. Goldenberg, President, Health Realty Advisors, Inc.
Mr. Goldenberg, has been involved in healthcare and other non-profit real estate and structured finance for the past 27 years. He is the founding principal of Health Realty Advisors, Inc. which he created in 2001. He is an active consultant in the provision of healthcare and other non-profit real estate services as well as implementing solutions which include development, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and financing. In the last two years he has implemented $60 million of transactions.
John McCullough photo John H. McCulloch, Senior Vice President, National Standard Finance LLC
Mr. McCulloch has led a diverse and expansive career in healthcare and healthcare real estate with positions including: VP of Acquisitions, National Standard Finance, 2009-Present Principal, National Healthcare Properties, Inc, 2005-2009; Director of Acquisitions, Income Property Specialists, LLC, 2000-2005; Director of Operations, In-Home Health, Inc., 1999-2000; Area Administrator, InterHealth, Inc., 1998-1999; Vice-President, Founder, Colorado Home Care, Inc., 1993-1997; President, Founder, J.M. Healthcare, Inc. 1991-1997; Chief Financial Officer, Omega Group, LTD, 1990-1991; Chief Financial Officer, Etta Industries, Inc., 1987-1990; Chief Executive Officer, Gadsden Memorial Hospital, Florida, 1984-1987.
Jeff Oram photo Jeffrey Oram, Director, National Office and Industrial Properties Group, Marcus & Millichap
Jeffrey Oram is a director in Marcus & Millichap’s National Office and Industrial Properties Group. Based in the firm’s New Jersey office, he is responsible for marketing medical office, office and industrial properties and portfolios throughout the nation to the highest level of institutional investors and private clients. During his career, Mr. Oram has been part of teams that have closed more than $8 billion in investment sales and he has been personally responsible for closing more than $1 billion in sales during his career.
David Rutson photo David Rutson, President / Founding Principal, Globe Medical Realty Advisors
David formed Globe Medical Realty Advisors (GMRA) after selling his interest in Texas Medical Realty Inc, of which he was the founding partner and managing broker. He has completed well over a million square feet of medically-related transactions and has represented over 300 physicians nationwide. His corporate clients have included Raleigh Durham Medical Group, Rainbow Medical in Las Vegas, CVS, Walgreen’s, and Eckerd. Rutson’s real estate career experience spans 17 years during which time he has been honored in the Dallas Business Journal’s Real Estate “Heavy Hitters”, most recently in 2007 and 2008.
Tim Wang photo Tim Wang, PhD., VP, Research & Investment Strategy, ING Clarion
Tim Wang, Ph.D. is a Vice President and Senior Investment Strategist at ING Clarion. He joined the firm in 2006 and helps manage $38 billion commercial real estate investment including private equity real estate, public REITs, and distressed debt. Prior to ING Clarion, he worked at Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (FHLBNY). Tim holds an MBA from New York University and a Ph.D. from University of Georgia.
Murray Wolf photo Murray W. Wolf, Publisher, Healthcare Real Estate Insights
Murray W. Wolf is Managing Principal of Wolf Marketing & Media, and Publisher and Founding Editor of Healthcare Real Estate Insights™. Mr. Wolf is an experienced marketing executive and an award-winning journalist with more than a quarter-century of marketing, communications and publishing experience, almost exclusively in the commercial real estate industry. Wolf Marketing & Media specializes in information and marketing services for previously under-served niches of the commercial real estate industry, publishing Healthcare Real Estate Insights™, Bioscience Real Estate Insights™, HREI™ Executive Briefing™ and the HREI™ Resource Guide™.