A clinician, researcher and medical educator, Larry J. Goodman, MD, is the chief executive officer of Rush. He also serves as president of Rush University, president of the Rush System for Health, and principal officer of the Rush Board of Trustees. Goodman was also president of Rush from 2002 until September 2010.

Prior to being named president and CEO, Goodman was senior vice president for medical affairs at Rush University Medical Center and the Henry R. Russe Dean of Rush Medical College. Before accepting the position of senior vice president in 1998, he was medical director of Cook County Hospital (now John H. Stroger, Jr., Hospital of Cook County), a position he had held since 1996. During this time he also served as professor of medicine and associate dean of Rush Medical College.

In 1987, he was named associate dean for medical student programs at Rush. He later served Rush Medical College as director of the division of specialized training programs and as director of inter-institutional affairs at Rush. In that position he played a critical role in crafting the academic affiliation agreement between Rush and Cook County Hospital.

Goodman has published in such prestigious publications as the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Journal of Infectious Diseases. His research has focused on infectious diseases, particularly gastrointestinal infections in HIV-positive patients. He is also known for promoting innovation in medical education, and has written extensively about such issues as curricula and how students select a specialty for residency training.

Goodman received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1976, having graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan's undergraduate program. He came to Rush University Medical Center in 1977 as a resident in the Department of Internal Medicine. He was named chief resident in 1979. He subsequently completed a fellowship in infectious disease and joined the faculty and staff.

Goodman's numerous honors and awards at Rush include being named Outstanding Medical Resident in 1979 and Medical Attending of the Year in 1984. In 1988, he was inducted into the Mark Lepper, MD, Society of Teachers at Rush MedicalCollege. Graduating medical students honored him three times by presenting him with the Phoenix Award for Clinical Teacher of the Year.

On a national level, Goodman has served as a site survey team member for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which accredits medical schools.

David Franek is a Partner in the Real Estate Practice Group. With more than 30 years in practice, David has extensive experience structuring and negotiating a variety of complex real estate transactions, including all aspects of commercial development, acquisition, and leasing. David’s practical and business-oriented approach results in lasting relationships and added value to clients. He applies his deep understanding of the retail, restaurant, and healthcare industries to each client’s unique business context. The clients he serves are engaged in retail, restaurant, office, healthcare, and mixed-use projects nationwide. David also represents national development and retail companies in the development, leasing, acquisition, and sale of numerous properties nationwide, including build-to-suit retail projects, lifestyle, and mixed-use shopping centers and office complexes. David’s work on behalf of his clients includes: Multi-state acquisitions and dispositions, Strategic expansion, Acquisition of operating companies, Long-term leases on behalf of both landlords and tenants, and Ground leases.

David has extensive experience in negotiating all types of complex retail transactions. He has represented developers, institutional owners, and the retailers themselves.

Mike Wilson is a Principal in the Chicago office of Avison Young. He focuses on capital markets advisory of industrial and medical office property owners throughout the Midwest. Mike has represented both institutional and private equity clients in investment property sales, as well as working with corporate clients in sale-leaseback transactions totaling over $1 Billion. His recent client list includes Centerpoint Properties, WP Carey, Rreef, HSA Commercial, DCT Industrial, Principal Investors and First Industrial among others. Prior to working with Avison Young, Mike helped to initiate the Capital Markets Group of Grubb & Ellis and before that was a top producer at another national investment brokerage firm. Having advised institutional clients on many significant transactions, Mike has been a finalist multiple years for NAIOP Chicago Investment Deal of the Year as well as NAIOP Investment Awards in other Midwest markets.

Mike attended Indiana University and earned a bachelor degree in Finance from the Kelly School of Business. During his tenure at Indiana, Mike was a member of the Indiana Hoosiers football team where he was selected to the Academic All Big-Ten Team. He is active in NAIOP, ULI, and the Chicago Real Estate Council. Mike is an advisory board member of the On Your Feet Foundation.

JOHN D. COBB currently serves as Ventas’s Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, after serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer from 2010 to 2013. During Mr. Cobb’s tenure, he and his team of investment officers developed key customer relationships and facilitated Ventas’s growth through more than $22 billion in accretive mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Ventas, Mr. Cobb served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Senior Lifestyle Corporation, where he led the strategic direction of a 9,000+ unit retirement company with over 3,400 employees. Before that, Mr. Cobb held various positions with GE Healthcare Financial Services, a division of General Electric Capital Corporation, with the last being Senior Managing Director.

Mr. Cobb has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). He is currently a member of the Executive Board of the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA). Mr. Cobb holds a B.S. degree in Finance from Lehigh University.

Mark brings 20 years of industry experience to the Firm and is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. As Head of the North American Transactions platform, he is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the North American Transactions group. In addition, he is responsible for sourcing transactions and forming joint venture relationships. Mark is also a member of the Firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance Committee and a Sponsor of the Harrison Street Network of Women (HS NOW) affinity group.

Prior to joining Harrison Street, Mark was at Morgan Stanley within its Merchant Banking Real Estate Investing Group. While there, he sourced, underwrote and closed acquisition and joint venture opportunities in the US, Canada and Mexico for several of its funds. In this capacity, he analyzed potential acquisitions, development and redevelopment opportunities across the capital structure, property types and risk/return fund parameters.

Mark graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a BBA in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics as well as Finance, Investments Banking. He is a member of the University of Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association.

As chief investment officer, Jesse Ostrow is responsible for shaping, managing and implementing RX Health and Science Trust’s investment strategies. Jesse has more than 20 years of experience in real estate private equity, investment banking and consulting, and was previously chief investment officer at MedProperties Group, a medical real estate investment, development and operating platform, where he led the firm's property acquisition process, and managed transactions including sourcing capital, closing debt, and executing sales and recapitalizations. Jesse's career in real estate private equity, investment banking and consulting has provided him with experience across property sectors and geographic markets. He founded a boutique real estate investment consulting firm where he served as a Managing Principal and previously was a principal at Equibase Capital Group, a provider of mezzanine debt, preferred equity and joint venture equity to real estate sponsors. He also worked in the Investment Structuring Group at Security Capital Research & Management (now a subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Asset Management), where he analyzed real estate securities investments for the firm's private institutional fund. Jesse began his career as an investment banking analyst in the Real Estate Group at A.G. Edwards & Sons.

Jesse earned a BBA with High Distinction from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Mike leads the Real Estate Function for the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s

Hospital of Chicago. He is primarily engaged in strategy formation and

Transaction Management. In this role, significant collaboration with the

Leadership Team facilitates an understanding of the business plan which

informs the Real Estate Strategy. The implementation of that strategy is

achieved through various transactions which include acquisition of owned and

leased sites, development and disposition.

Mike's former role was the Regional Director of Real Estate for Trinity Health -

Illinois/Indiana Region consisting of five hospital campuses totaling 15M square

feet including Loyola University Medical Center and St. Joseph Regional Medical

Center (Mishawaka, IN). Mike led the real estate function which also included

90 off-site locations comprised of Ambulatory Care Centers and Timeshare

Leases. Key aspects of that role included building consensus across the

Leadership Team relative to business and real estate strategy and its correlating

implementation.

Prior to engaging in Healthcare Real Estate, Mike spent 16 years as a Managing

Director and Sr. Vice President with CBRE and Tramell Crow Company within

Corporate Services with a focus on leading Transaction Management and Real

Estate Strategy for large global clients including Microsoft and American

Express. With portfolios ranging from 11M to 40M square feet, Mike also led

large teams of up to 175 corporate service professionals engaged in all aspects

of Corporate Real Estate including Project and Facilities Management.

Gina Weldy is the Vice President of Real Estate at Northwestern Memorial HealthCare. Her division leads strategic real estate decision making and provides financial and management oversight for real estate transactions, including all acquisitions and leasing. She also directs property management and commercial construction for Northwestern's 9 million square foot commercial and residential real estate portfolio; the portfolio spans across the downtown medical campus and the Chicago’s northern and western suburbs. Prior to joining Northwestern Memorial, Ms. Weldy worked for Ernst & Young in their healthcare and technology consulting practices.

Ms. Weldy received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Indiana University and a Masters of Business Administration from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. She is the Vice Chair of Urban Land Institute’s Healthcare & Life sciences Council and a member of the Economic Club of Chicago

Throughout his career, Chris Bowen, in addition to his work on hospital campuses, has played an integral role in

fostering the national movement from institutionally-driven to community-driven and integrated care through the

development of medical services within a market-focused, “neighborhood” platform.

Early on, working with a group of visionary physician leaders and building one of the early multi-specialty,

physician practice management companies – he learned the elements critical to successfully developing a medical

practice aligned with both the medical-side and the consumer-side of any given community and marketplace.

Further, he was exposed to practice-specific process improvement methodologies that forever colored his

approach to practice development and eventually, healthcare real estate and facility development at the national

level.

Chris was instrumental in building three of the nation’s leading real estate companies and platforms responsible for

defining new ways to develop and fund partnerships and medical space that would impact the delivery of

healthcare both on and off hospital campuses.

In 2011, he crossed back over to the healthcare provider side of the business when he joined Vein Clinics of

America (“VCA” – a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntegraMed and Sagard Capital) as Vice President – Practice

Development. In this role, Chris guided VCA away from its historical practice of developing clinics in corporate

office parks to developing in community-based, retail-oriented locations. While taking the business from 30 clinics

to 60 clinics in 14 states in 36 months, Chris and his team fully restructured the company’s supply chain function

and built a national, high-volume retail roll-out platform, specialized to fully support VCA’s aggressive, medical

clinic/procedure center development and branding objectives.

Today, as a national, healthcare real estate investor and developer with Irgens, Chris is helping bring medical

specialty brands and services to communities throughout the United States through his work with healthcare

decision-makers and stake-holders representing health systems, hospitals, medical groups and other healthcare

corporate players.

Tim’s architectural experience has been focused on the healthcare industry specifically in master planning, programming and healthcare technologies. Tim most recently was the Principal-in-Charge for the Saint Alexius Medical Center Campus Master Plan and Modernization Program, University of Chicago Medical Center Comer Children’s Center for Specialty Care Clinics, OSF Rock Cut Crossing Ambulatory Care Center, Northwestern Operating Room Modernization and Video Integration, Northwestern Digestive Health Center and Loyola Ambulatory Care at Burr Ridge. His innovative approach to solving the complex problems associated with healthcare planning combined with his ability to effectively shepherd users through the process define him as a trusted leader in the industry.

Tim attended and received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and is currently an active member of the AIA and ACHA. Some of his contributions to the industry include regular speaking engagements at the Symposium of Healthcare Design Conference, The University of Wisconsin Engineering Project Management seminars and the Annual Construction Writers Association conference. His publications include “Smart Design: New Rehab Hospital Incorporates Treatment Philosophies and Patient Needs,” as well as “Surgery Addition at Provena Mercy Medical Center Offers Top Surgical Technology in Patient-Friendly Surroundings,” both published in Chicago Hospital News.