➤➤Join the GlobeSt.HEALTHCARE (formerly RealShare)conference December 3-4 in Scottsdale, AZ. The event will cover theindustry's major issues as well as the prevailing and upcomingtrends in regulations, space use, budgeting, and technologyimplementation. Through panel discussions and peer-to-peernetworking opportunities, the attendees will gather expert insightson how these factors will affect the development, operation,investment and design of healthcare real estate. Click here to register and view theagenda.

Newmark Knight Frank vice chairman, Chad Lavender, is a diligentself-starter in healthcare commercial real estate. At 25, Lavenderco-founded a leading brokerage seniors housing group with RyanMaconachy; the two have continued to build-out this platform since,being appointed as co-heads of Newmark Knight Frank's Healthcareand Alternative Real Estate Assets Capital Markets platform earlierthis year.

In preparation for our upcoming GlobeSt.HEALTHCARE Conference,we wanted to highlight Lavendar as one to watch in the industry.Throughout his decade-long commercial real estate career, Lavenderhas become a leading expert in the healthcare and seniors housingsphere and has completed more than $17 billion in transactionsthroughout the US, with an annual transaction volume of more than$3 billion each of the last three years.

He began his career in seniors housing brokerage before theasset class was established as a competitive investment type forinstitutional capital. He observed demographic and economicshifts—baby boomers making up the largest part of the US populationand that the largest portion of US GDP is spent on healthcare. Hisunderstanding of these trends helped Lavender create a fullyconnected, one-stop platform that serviced seniors housing, medicaloffice and hospital capital markets on behalf of institutionalclients who were investing across the healthcare industry.