Thirty-two professionals in real estate development, planning, design, engineering, finance, and health care from across the country have been selected to participate in the first cohort of the ULI Health Leaders Network, a new program designed to empower real estate and land use professionals with the skills, knowledge, and networks to improve health outcomes in their professional practice and communities.
The Health Leaders Network is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Colorado Health Foundation, and ULI Foundation governor Randall Lewis.
The Health Leaders will convene in an introductory forum during the ULI Fall Meeting in Los Angeles, participate in a series of webinars, work on small group projects involving a commercial corridor in Seattle, and conclude with a final forum in Denver. The Health Leaders for 2017–2018 are:
- Ina Anderson, senior program officer, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
- Eddie Arslanian, principal, Ramboll Environ
- Michael Bloom, sustainability practice manager, R.G. Miller Engineers Inc.
- J. Keith Brown, managing director, Urban Infrastructure Partners LLC
- Tony Burley, managing principal–Los Angeles/U.S. health care lead, IBI Group
- Amanda Burnham, director of transactions, real estate and construction, Providence St. Joseph Health
- Kris Callori, principal, Verdacity LLC
- Diane Caslow, vice president, strategic and business planning, MedStar Health
- Patricia Cornelison, principal, Arrowstreet
- Ryan Doyle, vice president and general manager, oneC1TY Nashville, Cambridge Holdings Inc.
- Stephanie Echeveste, placemaking manager, Vornado
- Pete Fritz, healthy communities planner, Indiana State Department of Health
- Kathryn Gardow, chief financial officer, MetroAG Strategies
- Stephen Gyor, lead sustainability planner, Washington, D.C., Office of Planning
- Katherine Hebert, healthy community design specialist, Centralina Council of Governments
- Roger Herzog, executive director, Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation
- Julia Katz, planner II, Triangle J Council of Governments
- Emily Kurtz, deputy housing director, RiseBoro Community Partnership
- Stuart Levin, physician, Wake Internal Medicine Consultants
- Bethany Madsen, architect/project manager, VIA Architecture
- Bill Mahar, senior associate, Norris Design
- J. Timothy McCarthy II, managing principal, Hart Howerton
- Luis Nieves-Ruiz, economic development program manager, East Central Florida Regional Planning Council
- Erin Patterson, vice president/associate director, JLL
- Dominic Ruiz, business development, International WELL Building Institute
- Chuck Schilke, director, real estate program, Johns Hopkins University
- Melani Smith, adjunct faculty, University of Southern California
- Sarah Sturtevant, manager, NeighborWorks America
- Laura Unrein, sustainable design consultant, Group14 Engineering
- Ayako Utsumi, founding consultant, Valon Consulting
- Marja Williams, development manager and real estate developer, Oranje LLC
- Jane Winslow, landscape architect and urban planner, JFWinslow
