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Sam Sears

Sam Sears

EVP

Remedy Medical Properties

Nancy Hanright

Nancy Hanright

Executive Director, Real Estate & Space Planning

Boston Medical Center

James Mayo-Smith

James Mayo-Smith

VP

AEW

Brendan Whalen

Brendan Whalen

Executive Director

BMC

Paul Deviller

Paul Deviller

Director of Plant Operations

Lahey Hospital & Medical Center

Paul Sabal

Paul Sabal

Principal / Healthcare Practice Leader

HFA Architecture & Engineering

Jerome Kapferer

Jerome Kapferer

Boston Branch Manager

Limbach

Jessica Stebbins

Jessica Stebbins

Health Principal

HDR

Chris Schena

Chris Schena

Senior Project Manager

Wise Construction

Sam Sears

EVP

Remedy Medical Properties

Sam oversees all strategic planning engagements at Percival Health Advisors, an independent healthcare strategy consulting group within Remedy. He specializes in ambulatory network planning, regional deployment strategies, integrated master facilities planning, service line business plans, and portfolio asset optimization strategies, all of which are driven by considerations such as patient experience, consumerism, and service models. During his 20-year career, Sam has spoken at national and regional conferences, authored white papers, and cultivated value-added work relationships with some of the most prominent healthcare organizations in the country, including Yale New Haven Health, Duke Medicine, and University of Chicago Medicine. Prior to founding Percival, he spent 15 years as a healthcare planning consultant at Hammes Company and Noblis and five years at Brigham & Women’s Hospital as Director of Clinical Research in Cardiac Surgery.

Paul Sabal

Principal / Healthcare Practice Leader

HFA Architecture & Engineering

Paul Sabal is a registered architect and interior designer with more than 43 years of experience in the architecture and engineering industry. With extensive knowledge in healthcare design and construction, Paul has been involved in all aspects of the process, from initial land and facility planning to design and construction administration. He has worked in large firms, multi-office settings, and national practices, making him well-versed in healthcare design trends and best practices. Paul's expertise extends to regulations, legislation, and reimbursements in the industry. As the Principal/Healthcare Practice Leader at HFA, he brings his wealth of experience to lead a team in challenging industry norms and developing innovative solutions for clients. With a focus on leveraging new AEC technologies, Paul aims to revolutionize how healthcare projects are planned, designed, constructed, operated, and maintained.

Jerome Kapferer

Boston Branch Manager

Limbach

Jerome is the Boston Branch Manager at Limbach, where he helps hospitals and health systems optimize critical infrastructure to improve reliability, efficiency, and long-term facility performance. He partners with healthcare organizations to align facility investments with operational priorities, ensuring mission-critical environments remain resilient while supporting the evolving needs of patient care.

With extensive experience across the HVAC, building systems, and industrial automation industries, Jerome has led strategic growth initiatives focused on enhancing facility performance, reducing operational risk, and maximizing capital investments. Recognized for his collaborative leadership style, he brings together engineering expertise, service excellence, and customer-focused strategies to help healthcare organizations modernize aging infrastructure, improve energy performance, and build more resilient facilities for the future.

Jessica Stebbins

Health Principal

HDR

As a health principal and market sector leader for New England, Jessica is responsible for bringing our vast network of specialized healthcare services and expertise to healthcare organizations throughout the region.

Recognized as a thought leader with 20 years of experience in strategic planning, master planning, design and delivering complex healthcare facilities for community and academic healthcare clients, Jessica guides project teams through the entire design process. She has extensive experience in employing methods for expediting design and construction, maintaining quality and minimizing risk throughout the project delivery process to inform better and expeditious decision-making.

Jessica’s portfolio includes the nationally renowned LEED Gold replacement facility for Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown, Massachusetts; various projects for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston; and strategic facility master plans for the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. She is involved in the Women’s Executive Leadership and Living organization as a mentor to young professional women; as a guest lecturer at Boston architecture and design schools; and she serves on Boston’s USS Constitution Museum’s Board of Overseers.

Why You Should Attend This 2026 Boston Healthcare Conference

What You'll Learn:

How you'll do more business:

Learn from leading healthcare professionals on the current state of patient care and experience. Discover innovative strategies to support tech integration and patient care, and navigate uncertainty in the healthcare sector. Hear from Boston's most influential healthcare systems, owners, tenants and medical professionals about their facility expectations and patient care outlook. Learn more about Boston's hospital, medical office and ambulatory care landscape.

Who attends:

Boston's top healthcare owners, developers, operators, partners, architects and more.

Why should you attend:

Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to help you identify opportunities, build your network and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business better than we do.

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Agenda

Time Activity
8:00 AM
9:00 AM
Coffee, Breakfast & Networking
9:00 AM
9:45 AM
Outpatient & Medical Office Building Development & Demand

1.) Examine the return of demand for portfolio transactions.
2.) Examining how tightening supply and falling construction completions are reshaping outpatient development & leasing strategies.

9:45 AM
10:30 AM
Hospital Campuses & Ambulatory Centers: Upgrades & Expansions

1.) Understanding how the shift toward outpatient centers are influencing where and how hospital campuses grow.
2.) Examining how systems are financing large scale projects amid rising costs.

10:30 AM
11:15 AM
Building Planning: Layouts, Operations & Tech Integrations

1.) Understanding how thin operating margins are shaping decisions on renovation versus new construction.
2.) Examining how flexible layouts are replacing traditional acute care design across new projects.

11:15 AM
11:30 AM
Post Event Networking

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