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Tom Grape
Opening Remarks

Tom Grape

Chairman & CEO

Benchmark Senior Living

Outside In

Regional and National Trends, and What we're seeing in Boston

David E. Storto

David E. Storto

President

Partners Continuing Care & Spaulding Rehabilitation Network

Cheri Clarke Doyle

Cheri Clarke Doyle

Managing Director

J.G. Petrucci Co.

Roberta Young

Roberta Young

Managing Principal

SBA/Sterling Planning Alliance

Hal Macomber
Moderator

Hal Macomber

Principal

Lean Project Consulting

Inside Out

Longwood as a Microcosm of the Boston Healthcare Market

Charles Weinstein

Charles Weinstein

EVP, Chief Real Estate & Facility Officer

Children's National Medical Center

Wendy Gettleman

Wendy Gettleman

VP, Facilities Management & Real Estate

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Frank Nelson

Frank Nelson

Executive Managing Director

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank

Shawn Seaman

Shawn Seaman

COO

Suffolk Construction

Dennis Dyer
Moderator

Dennis Dyer

Partner

AKF Group

Charles Weinstein

EVP, Chief Real Estate & Facility Officer

Children's National Medical Center

Mr. Weinstein is the senior leader of Children's National Medical Center, responsible for the strategic planning and development of all clinical, research and administrative expansions and renovations at the hospital's main Sheikh Zayed campus, as well as all remote ambulatory clinic locations in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia (approximately SO locations). He also has primary responsibility for the hospital's development of a new 12 acre campus, formerly known as The Walter Reed Army Medical Center & Army Pathology Institute, and repurposing that parcel to expand the clinical and research enterprise of Children's National.

Wendy Gettleman

VP, Facilities Management & Real Estate

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Wendy Gettleman is currently employed at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts as Vice President of Facilities Management and Real Estate. In this role, Wendy has oversight of Facilities Operations; Planning, Design and Construction; Real Estate & Energy Management; General Services including Parking & Transportation; Telecom, Conference Services and Food Services. Wendy guides the Facilities agenda including major capital construction and renovations (FY19: $450M in active projects), continuity of plant operations for all DFCI sites (2.7M square feet) and master facility space planning efforts.

In her prior position as Senior Director of Planning, Design & Construction, Wendy directed design and construction of 25-35 annual capital projects with combined capital budgets of over $130 Million with a team focused on lean design principles, safe construction and fiscal responsibility.

Wendy joined Dana-Farber in 2005 as Senior Project Manager then as Director of Project Management for the Yawkey Center for Cancer Care. In those roles, Wendy led the project team from design through construction and occupancy in January 2011, bringing in the $330Million project under budget and ahead of schedule. In this position, she has become a leading expert in facilitating patient and family input into design, presenting this topic at the 3rd International Conference on Patient- and Family-Centered Care. In addition, the Yawkey Center Project earned gold LEED status and has received numerous project management awards.

Wendy began her major construction project management career at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2001 as Senior Project Manager with a $136 Million hospital expansion project, again achieving project completion on schedule and on budget. Prior to that, Wendy was employed for 10 years with Sodexo’s Healthcare Division in operations management and division leadership positions.

Frank Nelson

Executive Managing Director

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank

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.

Summary

Join Bisnow for our Boston Healthcare Summit.  We have gathered Boston's top healthcare and commercial real estate minds to discuss current expansions of local hospitals, design innovations, the macro impact of policy changes, and much more. Benchmark CEO Tom Grape will also give a special opening, looking at the Senior Housing market, and what to expect in the future.


As always, come early and stay late for ample networking time!

Venue

Boston Harbor Hotel
70 Rowes Wharf
Boston, MA 02110

Ballroom: Wharf Room, Lobby Level



Self-parking: Rowes Wharf Parking Garage (30 Rose Wharf),
1 minute walk - $25 for 3 hours
Valet: $49