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Management
William N. Bernstein, PMI, CSI,
LEED®AP, AIA :
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Mr. Bernstein is a registered architect and a graduate of Yale
University (Master of Architecture), with over thirty years of
experience in healthcare architecture, healthcare project
management, and medical equipment planning. Mr. Bernstein is a
member of the following organizations: American Institute of
Architects, National Council of Architectural Registration
Boards, American College of Healthcare Architects, American
Society of Hospital Engineers, Hospital Engineering Society,
Construction Specifications Institute and the Project
Management Institute. Mr. Bernstein received the Healthcare
Construction Certificate from the American Hospital
Association. In addition, he is LEED-certified, and offers
additional experience in equipment planning within sustainable
and LEED-certified projects.
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Areas of Equipment Planning Expertise : Hospitals, Healthcare,
Laboratories, Sustainable and LEED-certified projects.
Mitch Gipson
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Mitch Gipson is a consultant to the biotech industry as well
as a graduate of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of
Government (Masters in City and Regional Planning) and
Dartmouth College. Mr. Gipson was the Executive Director of
the Audubon Biomedical Science and Technology Park at Columbia
University Medical Center for 11 years. He was responsible for
the overall commercial development and management of the Park,
which is comprised of two university research buildings and
the Audubon Business and Technology Center, New York City’s
first incubator for start up biotechnology companies. The
incubator has been a home to over 50 start up companies to
date. Prior to coming to Columbia, Mr. Gipson spent 8 years at
the New York City Economic Development Corporation, which is
responsible for implementing New York City’s economic
development initiatives. While at EDC, Mr. Gipson worked on a
variety of commercial real estate development projects
including community retail development efforts, regional
retail development projects and large scale mixed-use and
office projects in downtown Brooklyn including the Morgan
Stanley/Pierrepont building and Renaissance Plaza/New York
Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, which was Brooklyn’s first
new, full service hotel in over 40 years.
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Area of Equipment Planning Expertise: Laboratories
Kristen Bacorn, LEED®AP
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Ms. Bacorn is an experienced management consultant in the area
of green architecture. She is a LEED-accredited professional.
She has provided LEED management consulting on numerous green
projects including the nation's first green residential
hi-rise, The Solaire; 67 Broad Street, a 40+ story tower in
the financial district; a hotel in midtown Manhattan; a
multi-family apartment building, and the Sears Tower in
Chicago. Her work has been been published in Newsweek and the
Wall Street Journal. In addition, she has served for many
years on the American Institute of Architects' Committee on
the Environment.
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Area of
Equipment Planning Expertise
: Green Architecture, LEED Projects
Thomas W. Sevcik, CHFM
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Mr.
Sevcik has over thirty years of medical equipment planning and
procurement experience. He holds a B.B.A. in Management from
Temple University and is a Certified Healthcare Facility
Manager by the American Hospital Association. Mr. Sevcik was
Director of Facilities Planning, Director of Plant Operations
and Director of Engineering for three of New York's most
formidable private Hospitals and Medical Centers. Mr. Sevcik
is a member of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering
(ASHE) Hospital Engineers Society of Greater New York (HES)
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
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Area
of Equipment Planning Expertise : Hospitals, Health Care
Kenneth Yesmant
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Mr. Yesmant is a graduate of SUNY Farmingdale, Pratt
Institute, and the National Academy of Art & Design. He has
devoted his career to the design, construction, and food
service equipment planning of restaurants, and he has worked
on some of the most prominent and successful restaurants in
the country. He has a national reputation in food service
equipment consulting, restaurant design and construction, and
has completed over (20) prominent restaurant projects around
the country.
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Areas of Equipment Planning Expertise: Food Service,
Restaurants, Kitchens
Willie Landau
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Ms. Landau has been active as an interior designer and
purchasing specialist since 1977. She has participated in the
strategic planning and implementation of both domestic and
international projects of varying degrees of complexity,
ranging from new construction, to restorations, and partial or
total rehabilitations. Known in the hospitality industry as a
strong negotiator with an extensive knowledge of product and
sourcing, Ms. Landau has a consistent tract record of
achieving substantial saving for her clients. Her work
encompasses contract and residential design, purchasing,
project management at high dollar volume levels, and
specializes in consulting services for the hospitality
industry.
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Area of Equipment Planning Expertise: Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment
(FF&E)
Robert S. Goodman, MBA, CHE
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Mr. Goodman is a 30-plus year veteran of the healthcare
industry, having held positions in hospital administration,
investment banking, financing and consulting. His career in
hospital administration began in 1973 and culminated with
being CEO of a 240-bed community hospital in New York City
that he turned around in the late 1980’s. He spent 6 years
associated with a Merrill Lynch wholly owned subsidiary where
he was involved with the turnaround and disposition of 16
diagnostic imaging centers located throughout the United
States. He then started a new subsidiary for a diversified
financial services company focused on financing de novo
outpatient centers, notably surgery centers, diagnostic
imaging centers and radiation therapy centers. He started The
Mansfield Group, LLC, a healthcare management and consulting
firm, in 2000 and has worked on many outpatient projects,
mostly managing the arrangement of debt financing, negotiating
with landlords, performing feasibility studies, advising on
ownership structures and providing other advisory and
development services. Philosophically, Mr. Goodman has a deep
sense of the delicacies associated with balancing the
provision of healthcare with the business of healthcare. He
believes that hospitals and physicians must act together to be
able to offer the best and most affordable healthcare to the
communities they serve. He also realizes that it is not always
possible.
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Area of Equipment Planning Expertise : Health Care
John Matzelle, Jr. , AIA :
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Mr. Matzelle is a registered architect and a graduate of Pratt
Institute, with over forty years of experience in the design
and construction of high-profile, large-scale health care and
elder care projects. During this period of forty years, Mr.
Matzelle was the Executive Vice President and Director of
Hospital Design and Planning for Taylor Clark Architects, the
most prominent healthcare design firm in New York during this
time. Mr. Matzelle is a member of the following organizations
: American Institute of Architects, and American Association
of Hospital Planning. Mr. Matzelle is well recognized for his
health care experience and expertise in the New York design
and construction industries.
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Areas of Equipment Planning Expertise : Health Care, Elder Care
James M. Hunt, AIA:
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Mr. Hunt is a registered Architect and graduate of Kansas
State University (Bachelor of Architecture) with over
thirty-five years of experience in all phases of the
construction industry. He was employed by architectural firms
for ten years working primarily with health care projects, was
Director of Facilities Management for the Menninger Clinic (a
world renown private mental health facility) for twenty years
and is presently president of a facility management company
and a licensed general contractor. Mr. Hunt is a member of
the American Institute of Architects, International Facility
Management Association, founding member of IFMA’s Health Care
Council and former Planning Commissioner in Topeka. Mr. Hunt
is registered to practice architecture in Kansas and because
of his NCARB certification can be registered to practice
architecture in all 50 states and Canada within 30 days of
application. His experience with the Menninger Clinic allowed
him to gain intimate knowledge of the very specialized
requirements for designing safe environments for behavioral
health care units. He has consulted with facilities in eight
states on design and remodeling of this type of facility. He
co-authored a white paper titled “Guidelines for the Built
Environment of Behavioral Health Facilities” which was
published on the website of the National Association of
Psychiatric Health Systems. Mr. Hunt has also been published
in Psychiatric Hospital magazine and featured on the cover of
Facility Design and Management and has been a guest lecturer
at the College of Architecture and Design at Kansas State
University.
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Areas of Equipment Planning Expertise: Health Care (with a sub-specialty
in Psychiatric Facilities)
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