The Rutgers Center for Real Estate is hosting a symposium,"The Future of Healthcare Real Estate in New Jersey" April 15 in New Brunswick.

Neil Eicher, vice president of government relations and policy at NJHA, will join a group of panelists to talk about the many issues facing healthcare real estate professionals. The panel will discuss a hypothetical case study of a health system facing difficult decisions relating to physical plant management finance, regulatory, legal, policy and political issues.

The keynote will be presented by Marc Berson, chairman of the Board of Trustees for RWJBarnabas Health. Co-moderators of the panel will be George Jacobs, hospital board member and MOB redeveloper, and Ted Zangari, chair of redevelopment law and public policy practice groups at Sills Cummis & Gross.

Additional panelists include several healthcare leaders and policy experts from across the state including:

• Barry H. Ostrowsky, president and CEO, RWJBarnabas Health
• Anthony (Skip) Cimino, former president and CEO, RWJ Hamilton; lobbyist at Kaufman Zita Group
• Hon. Mary O’Dowd, former commissioner, N.J. Department of Health
• Hon. Kenneth M. Morris Jr., vice president of external affairs, Saint Joseph’s Healthcare System/Councilman-City of Paterson
• Hon. Joan Quigley, former state assemblywoman and hospital administrator
• Hon. Eliana Pintor Marin, vice chair of the Assembly Commerce Committee
• Andrew Bush, vice president of real estate, Cooper University Health Care
• Andrew L. Pecora, MD, chief innovation officer, John Theurer Cancer Center at HUMC