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Thomas Priselac

Thomas Priselac

CEO

Cedars-Sinai

Rod Hanners

Rod Hanners

CEO of Keck Medical Center of USC

COO of Keck Medicine USC

Johnese Spisso

Johnese Spisso

CEO

UCLA Hospital System

John Pollock

John Pollock

Chief Financial Officer

Meridian

Neil Carolan

Neil Carolan

SVP of Development & Leasing

Rendina Healthcare Real Estate

Tim Delgado

Tim Delgado

President

Read King Medical Development

Sean Collins

Sean Collins

Director of Design & Construction

Cedar Sinai

Carolyn Rhee

Carolyn Rhee

Director of Correctional Treatment Building Project

Former CEO of Olive View- UCLA Medical

Shane Seitz

Shane Seitz

Senior Investment Officer

Ventas REIT

Hofu Wu

Hofu Wu

Professor

Cal Poly Ponoma

Margaret Peterson, PhD

Margaret Peterson, PhD

Healthcare Consultant

Matthew Jenusaitis

Matthew Jenusaitis

Chief of Staff

UC San Diego Health System

Ron Rendina

Ron Rendina

Southern California Healthcare Director

DPR Construction

Dr. Roger Hadley

Dr. Roger Hadley

Dean, School of Medicine

EVP for Medical Affairs, Loma Linda University

Lara Khouri

Lara Khouri

Chief Strategy Officer

Children's Hospital of LA

Stuart Eckblad

Stuart Eckblad

VP, Major Capital Construction Projects

UCSF Health

Brian Lewitt

Brian Lewitt

Senior Vice President

CBRE

Robert Pearl

Robert Pearl

Executive Director and CEO

The Permanente Federation

Mike Noto

Mike Noto

SVP

Welltower

Roger Call

Roger Call

Director Healthcare Architecture + Design

Herman Miller Healthcare

Chris Cumella

Chris Cumella

Founding Partner

Cypress West Realty Partners

Alicia Wachtel

Alicia Wachtel

ED, Facilities Planning, Design and Construction

Cedars Sinai Health System (CSHS)

Chris Dugas

Chris Dugas

Director – Design & Construction

Shriners Hospitals for Children

Dr. Michael Nduati

Dr. Michael Nduati

Physician Advisor – Southern CA Region

Chief Academic Officer/DIO – SoCal MEC, UHS

Gary Stache
Moderator

Gary Stache

Executive Vice President

CBRE

Fernando Villa
Moderator

Fernando Villa

Partner

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips

Laurie McCoy
Moderator

Laurie McCoy

Healthcare Principal

NBBJ

Peter Becronis
Moderator

Peter Becronis

Founding Partner

Inception Property Group

Scott Mackey
Moderator

Scott Mackey

Principal

Lionakis

John Pollock

Chief Financial Officer

Meridian

JJohn Pollock is Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director at Meridian. Mr. Pollock is responsible for

the capital markets, financing, and operational functions of Meridian. He works with his executive

leadership team on the company’s strategy and operations. Before his most recent role, Mr. Pollock

served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer.

With more than 30 years of knowledge shaped by a wide range of experiences in commercial and

residential real estate development, Mr. Pollock has proven his ability to lead, manage and develop

highly effective cross functional teams. Prior to joining Meridian in 2006, Mr. Pollock served as General

Manager for national home builder Centex Homes where he was responsible for all land development,

construction and sales in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Pollock served as Vice

President of Bovis Lend Lease, a leading international project management and construction company

operating in more than thirty countries. At Bovis, Mr. Pollock’s responsibilities included managing

finance, project controls and risk management and he was involved in a wide range of transactions in

size, scope, and geography.

Notable developments Mr. Pollock has been involved in include, Santana Row in San Jose, CA, Four

Seasons Hotel in San Francisco, CA, Lincoln Square in Bellevue, WA and the Privatization of Fort Hood

Family Housing in Killeen, TX.

John is a member of Urban Land Institute (ULI) and sits on the ULI Health Care and Life Science Council.

He also serves on the HREI Editorial Advisory Board and is a Certified Public Accountant. John Received a

Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from St. Mary’s College.

Tim Delgado

President

Read King Medical Development

Tim Delgado serves as President of Read King Medical Development. Tim is a veteran of the healthcare and medical real estate development industry, and has worked closely with several major hospital systems and physician groups on healthcare developments of all types and sizes. Tim's experience includes projects consisting of Hospitals, Free-Standing Emergency Departments, Urgent Care Facilities, Medical Clinics, Medical Office Buildings, Seniors Independent, Assisted and Memory Care Living Facilities, and Mixed-Use Developments. Tim is a licensed Real Estate Broker and previously played professional baseball for 11 years with the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians.

Shane Seitz

Senior Investment Officer

Ventas REIT

Shane Seitz has spent eight years with Ventas as a Senior Investment Officer. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, he is responsible for driving growth and diversification of the Company’s leading national Medical Office/Outpatient (MOB) real estate portfolio. Shane has more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate and is a member of the HREI Board of Directors.

Margaret Peterson, PhD

Healthcare Consultant

Margaret R. Peterson, PhD, serves as President of Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical, a 318-bed community hospital located at 1401 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Peterson began her career as a registered nurse. She earned a Master of Science in Nursing from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., her Master of Science degree in Cardiovascular Nursing from The Catholic University of America in Washington, and her Doctor of Philosophy in Administration from Miami University in Ohio.

Peterson has served in executive leadership roles over the past several years. Most recently, she was chief executive officer (CEO) at Desert Valley Hospital and Desert Valley Medical Group in Victorville, California, where she lead expansion efforts that included the opening of a comprehensive heart center. Prior to that, Peterson was CEO of Victor Valley Community Hospital and Simi Valley Hospital and Health Care Services in Simi Valley, California. She has also held executive leadership positions at hospitals in the states of Louisiana and Maryland.

Peterson has been honored by several organizations for her community leadership and named as “2005 Woman of the Year” by the 38th Assembly District of the California State Legislature. More recently, she received the President’s Award for Leadership from the Victorville African American Chamber of Commerce. A results-oriented leader, Peterson understands the important role that a hospital plays in the well-being of the community it serves. She is mission-driven and has hands-on community relations experience. Throughout her career, she has demonstrated her commitment to excellence in patient care through strategic partnerships with the American Heart Association and other notable organizations.

As new residents and professionals move into downtown Los Angeles, Peterson looks forward to introducing them to the outstanding services of Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center. Peterson will work closely with the hospital team and community partners to ensure continued growth as the neighborhood blossoms, while continuing to care for families who have relied on the hospital for generations.

Matthew Jenusaitis

Chief of Staff

UC San Diego Health System

As chief of staff for UC San Diego Health, Matthew Jenusaitis leads key initiatives in support of operational and strategic priorities to advance the organization's mission and vision. He serves as an executive liaison with the chief executive officer to provide management oversight and coordination of programs, initiatives and special projects, as well as deal with challenging situations and resolve problems. Additionally, Mr. Jenusaitis leads the enterprise-wide Project Management Office (PMO) to enhance performance management by improving operational efficiencies and reducing costs across UC San Diego Health.

Mr. Jenusaitis brings to this position more than 25 years of medical device industry, start-up and institutional investment experience focused on organizational growth, commercialization and operations. As a global life science executive, he has extensive expertise in the following clinical areas: cardiovascular, neurovascular, peripheral vascular and gastrointestinal interventional, as well as experience in both domestic and international management, sales and marketing, new product development, and non-profit fund raising, operations and management.

Before joining UC San Diego Health, Mr. Jenusaitis served as the president and chief executive officer of OCTANe, an Orange County, California non-profit organization focused on sparking innovation, starting new medical and high-tech companies, and creating jobs. OCTANe's accelerator program LaunchPad helped early-stage companies raise more than $700 million in capital and created more than 3,500 jobs in the region.

Before OCTANe, Mr. Jenusaitis worked with ConcepTx, identifying unmet clinical opportunities and developing new technologies and companies. He also served as the president of ev3 Neurovasuclar, leading their growing division (formerly MicroTherapeutics Inc.) through a combination of organizational development activities by launching and developing markets for a number of new products.

Mr. Jenusaitis spent 15 years at Boston Scientific Corp., most recently in the position of president of the $600 million Peripheral Interventions Division (formerly Medi-Tech) leading the acquisition and integration of Cryovascular Systems, Inc. and EndoTex, Inc. Before that, he held executive marketing and management positions in the Microvasive Endoscopy, International and Scimed Life Sciences divisions. During his career, Mr. Jenusaitis also spent eight years at Baxter Healthcare in both marketing and engineering management positions.

Mr. Jenusaitis holds a master of business administration degree from the University of California, Irvine, a master of science degree in biochemical engineering from Arizona State University, and a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University. He sits on the board of directors of Creagh Medical in Galway, Ireland, a developer and manufacturer of specialty angioplasty balloons, and Pulsar Vascular in Santa Clara, Calif., an early stage developer and manufacturer of neurovascular implants for the treatment of hemorrhagic stroke. He also serves on advisory boards for Cornell's School of Biomedical Engineering and Chapman University's Schmid School of Science and Technology.

Ron Rendina

Southern California Healthcare Director

DPR Construction

As Healthcare Director for DPR Construction’s Southern California region, Ron is responsible for

new healthcare project acquisition, client relations, and oversight and support for healthcare

operations. Ron is a Construction Engineering graduate from Florida International University, and

holds a master’s degree in Construction Management from Arizona State University. With over 32

years of experience, he is an active steering committee member for the: AIA Los Angeles

Healthcare Chapter, California Health Facilities Forum, and California Polytechnic University’s

Architectural Program with a concentration in Healthcare. Ron is accredited by the USGBC and

Design Build Institute of America.

Dr. Roger Hadley

Dean, School of Medicine

EVP for Medical Affairs, Loma Linda University

Roger Hadley was born and raised in Glendale, California. After completing two undergraduate years at Loma Linda University, he was accepted into Loma Linda University’s School of Medicine in an experimental accelerated program. He earned the B.S. and M.D. degrees from Loma Linda University in 1974. Dr. Hadley completed residency in surgery at Loma Linda University Medical Center, becoming board certified in that specialty in 1981. In 1983, Dr. Hadley completed a urology residency at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), followed by a one-year fellowship in female urology and urodynamics at that same institution. His student and resident journey was not limited to the United States but included studies abroad – Saigon, Vietnam; Davos, Switzerland; Athens, Greece; and Edinburgh, Scotland.

In 1984, Dr. Hadley returned to Loma Linda University’s School of Medicine as a full-time faculty member. In 1990, he was appointed head of the Division of Urology, and in 1991, he achieved the rank of Professor of Surgery. Dr. Hadley served as director of the Loma Linda University Urology Residency Program (1990-2003). In 1995, he was elected by his peers to be the founding President of Loma Linda University Health Care, the management services organization that governs the administrative infrastructure of the clinical faculty. He currently is the chair and president of that corporation.

In 2003, he was appointed Dean, School of Medicine, Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs of Loma Linda University Health, and Chief of Staff of Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children’s Hospital.

In 2015, he was appointed Chief Medical Officer of Loma Linda University Health.

Dr. Hadley has authored more than seventy articles in professional journals and has written more than twenty chapters in medical textbooks.

Mike Noto

SVP

Welltower

Michael A. Noto serves as Senior Vice President, Real Estate Services for Welltower. He is responsible for

ensuring that the operations, finance and leasing departments of Welltower’s Outpatient Medical portfolio

provide hospital clients and physician tenants with quality property management services, timely management

information, and a wide array of leasing services. Mr. Noto has been with the company since September 2001.

Mr. Noto spent 13 years as a banking executive with responsibilities including commercial and real estate

lending, credit administration, and the management and workout of tens of millions of dollars of real estate

assets. During his 17 years as a practicing attorney, Mr. Noto was directly involved in the financing,

management, acquisition and disposition of millions of dollars of real estate.

Mr. Noto is a member of BOMA International and has participated on panel discussions at the Medical Office

Buildings and Healthcare Facilities Conferences.

Mr. Noto received a Bachelor of Arts degree and an MBA in finance from Rutgers University and a law degree

from Pace University School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in the States of New York and Florida.

Roger Call

Director Healthcare Architecture + Design

Herman Miller Healthcare

Mr. Call is a registered architect and is currently Director, Kaizen Architecture, for Herman Miller Healthcare. He is responsible for guiding the strategic direction for the application of continuous improvement lean initiatives within healthcare and for research partnerships. During his previous 30 years with Herman Miller, he has had responsibilities for healthcare marketing, product management and leading the healthcare architecture and design initiatives. Prior to joining Herman Miller, Mr. Call was employed in private architectural practice with CRS of Houston, HOK of St. Louis, and The Architects Collaborative of Cambridge, MA. He has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Rice University and a Master of Architecture from Washington University, St. Louis. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the American Institute of Architects, the Academy of Architecture for Health, where he is a past president, the Clinical Laboratory Management Association, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and is a LEED Accredited Professional by the U. S. Green Building Council. Mr. Call is board certified in healthcare design by the American College of Healthcare Architects and serves as secretary of the board of the Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation. Mr. Call speaks widely at conferences and has been involved with many projects including the following:

Brooke Army Medical Center

;Intermountain Health Care

;Fletcher Allen Health Care

;Bluewater Health

;William Beaumont Medical Center, Ft. Bliss, TX

;Madigan Army Medical Center

;Portsmouth Naval Hospital

;Womack Army Medical Center;

UNC Ambulatory Clinic;

Cleveland Clinic, Naples, FL.

Alicia Wachtel

ED, Facilities Planning, Design and Construction

Cedars Sinai Health System (CSHS)

During this time of system transformation and geographical growth for

Cedars Sinai, Alicia is responsible for the management and leadership of

capital projects related to the health system’s expansion, the Medical

Delivery Network growth, and the built platforms supporting care delivery transformation. Her

responsibilities include hands on work with Real-Estate strategies that support the robust portfolio of

new clinical space. Since 1995, Wachtel has dedicated her career to Healthcare Design. Prior to joining

Cedars-Sinai in 2017, Alicia Wachtel was a Principal in the Los Angeles office of HOK.

Wachtel’s professional career has been focused on the delivery of complex replacement projects and

the multiple delivery methodologies associated with them, including hospital P3s.

Alicia holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from the Technion, Israel Institute of

Technology, where she transferred from the School of Architecture, Universidad del Estado,

Montevideo - Uruguay.

Dr. Michael Nduati

Physician Advisor – Southern CA Region

Chief Academic Officer/DIO – SoCal MEC, UHS

Dr. Michael Nduati, M.D., M.B.A, M.P.H., is chief executive officer of UCR Health and associate clinical professor of health sciences and senior associate dean for clinical affairs at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine. He is also hospitalist at Riverside Community Hospital. Nduati has a variety of responsibilities within the medical school. As CEO, he is responsible for the strategic development and growth of UCR Health, the medical school's clinical enterprise, and serves as the physician executive leader of the medical school's faculty practice. Prior to his appointment as senior associate dean, he was co-director of the school's Longitudinal Ambulatory Care Experience (LACE) program and director of hospital medicine for UCR Health. He received his bachelor's degree in biomedical sciences from UCR, then went to UCLA to earn his M.D. from the David Geffen School of Medicine and a Master of Business Administration from the Anderson School of Management. After graduating, he did his internship and residency at Kaiser Permanente Fontana before earning a Master in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Nduati, who is board certified in family medicine, is chair of the Academic Practice Forum for the California Medical Association and on the Board of Councilors for the Riverside County Medical Association.  He is also a member of the American Medical Association, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. While an undergraduate, Nduati co-founded the student-run African Americans United in Science at UCR, an organization that he continues to work with today.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nduati's interests include community physician preceptor recruitment retention, CQI of medical school

curriculum and leadership in health care.

AWARDS

 Accepted into Association of Departments of Family Medicine Fellowship program, 2016.

 UCR Outstanding Young Alumnus Award, 2015.

 UC-CORO Systemwide Leadership Collaborative graduate, 2015.

 New Faculty Scholar Award, (one of seven national award recipients), STFM Foundation, 2014.

Selected Publications

 LANGE Family Medicine: Ambulatory Care and Prevention, 6th Edition, Scrotal Complaints, Chapter, 9/28/13.

Gary Stache

Moderator

CBRE

Gary P. Stache has been specializing in investment sales with CBRE for over 30 years. He

heads the Investment Properties-SoCal in Southern California which is an 11 person team

plus a 5 person financial underwriting team.

Gary is a 33-time Top 10 producer in the Newport Beach office, which is one of the

premier offices of CBRE nationally. He is widely recognized as a leading investment

properties expert. His expertise is in understanding the capital markets, creating value in

an investment transaction, knowing and accessing investors and developing marketing

strategies for commercial investment properties in Southern California.

Gary has represented numerous institutional and private investors in acquisitions and with

the disposition of their assets. Since 2011, the team has been involved in the sale of over

145 investment transactions valued at more than $1.4 billion. The Team has ranked in the

top 5 nationally out of 92 Investment Properties teams every year for the last 12 years.

Gary and his team bring a broad base of marketing and investment expertise to an

engagement. They are recognized as leaders in structuring sale-leaseback transactions, in

addition to handling the sale of notes and structured equity transactions.

Prior to joining CBRE in 1979, Gary spent 3.5 years at IBM. He began his career at IBM

as a Marketing Representative and ultimately obtained a management position. During his

career at IBM, he was a recipient of numerous regional and national awards.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• 9-Time Winner: Colbert Coldwell Circle (Top 3% Nationally)

• 33 Time Top Ten producer, Newport Beach office

AFFILIATIONS:

• Campus Crusade for Christ • ALS Guardian Angels

• Victory Campus Outreach Ministries • Home Front America for Military

• Living Well Pregnancy Centers • International School Project

• Capistrano Valley Christian School • Mercy Warehouse

• Orphan’s Hope • Flower of Justice

EDUCATION:

University of Arizona, Bachelor of Science; General Business & Management Information Systems, 1976

Laurie McCoy

Moderator

NBBJ

Laurie McCoy is a Los Angeles-based architect and healthcare futurist at NBBJ, recognized as the world’s second-largest healthcare architecture firm. Throughout her 32 year career, Laurie has led the design and construction of innovative academic medical centers, medical office buildings and outpatient facilities for clients such as Loma Linda University Medical Center, UCLA Health, Kaiser Permanente and Dignity Health. She serves on the Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital Foundation Board and has also served as a volunteer board member and chairperson of Children’s Fund.

Peter Becronis

Moderator

Inception Property Group

Peter Becronis is a founding Partner of Inception Property Group, the result of a 2016 merger between Becronis’s healthcare focused development and advisory firm, Wembley Realty Advisors, and Matar Pacific, a healthcare development firm lead by Adam Matar. Inception Property Group, with offices in downtown Los Angeles and in the Pacific Northwest, currently manages a development pipeline of over half a billion dollars, including development of a 297,000 square foot outpatient healthcare hub in Downtown Los Angeles, and which has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and on the front page of the Los Angeles Business Journal, among other media coverage, as well as currently developing Oregon’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Inception is also in pre development of two hospital-anchored healthcare villages in the Southwest as well as forthcoming post-acute, senior living, multifamily and hospitality developments. Inception Property Group also advises healthcare providers on their portfolios and growth strategies. Peter is a recognized expert in healthcare development, having served on healthcare development panels at Interface and RealShare healthcare development events in 2015-2016, and serving as moderator of a development panel at the 2016 Bisnow Healthcare Real Estate Los Angeles summit event. Prior to forming Inception’s predecessor Wembley Realty Advisors in 2014, Peter managed the real estate strategy and resultant transactions for Kaiser Permanente for half of Southern California for eight years. While at Kaiser Permanente, Peter managed 29 capital acquisitions of land and buildings totaling 924,000 sq.ft with a value of $168 Million, from the initial site selection through close of escrow. Peter was on the internal development teams of several of Kaiser’s hospital campus developments as well as six off campus pad medical office developments and three major adaptive reuse projects. Peter also lead Kaiser’s national design/build initiative. Peter was the recipient of multiple cost-savings and performance excellence awards. Prior to Kaiser Permanente, Peter served as Vice President of Asset Management for Apex Realty (2001-2006), a general partner and manager of over 20 real estate syndicates in several states as well as a developer of healthcare, multifamily and retail. Peter managed Apex’s development of an 80-unit multifamily luxury apartment building in Downtown Los Angeles through groundbreaking, a 17-provider build-to-suit medical clinic for Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, and several pad retail developments. Peter also oversaw Apex’s commercial tenant improvements for tenants including General Electric, Sakura, Strapack and others. Prior to Apex Realty, Peter managed the operations of Asbury Properties (1991-2001), a private real estate syndicate invested in commercial and multifamily properties, where Peter lead Asbury’s internal asset management and leasing operations. In the 1990’s, Peter was elected to two terms of office on the City of Los Angeles’ Community Development Agency’s Project Area Committee for the Westlake/Pico-Union areas, service as Vice Chairman and Secretary.

Peter has over 28 years in commercial real estate development, negotiations, asset management, equity sourcing and portfolio strategy.

Scott Mackey

Moderator

Lionakis

As a Principal at Lionakis, Scott Mackey has over 30 years of experience in the architectural industry and has been providing high quality design and project management to a variety of clients in the healthcare, commercial, education and civic markets. His inspired creativity and forward-thinking design sense fosters team collaboration and innovative design solutions. Scott has a strong reputation for delivering quality projects that are not only aesthetically creative, but designed with functionality and efficiency. His robust experience makes him acutely aware of the lasting impacts of the architectural building industry, typically integrating sustainable design elements into the built environment.