The Nashville chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) has named Southeast Venture 2011 its Developer of the Year. Additionally, Southeast Venture broker, J.T. Martin, has been nominated as a finalist for the Developing Leader award. Both awards will be presented at the NAIOPs annual gala March 10 at the Hutton Hotel.
The Developer of the Year award honors one member firm that best exemplifies leadership and innovation in commercial real estate, said Hollie Cummings, executive director of the NAIOP Nashville chapter. The selection committee takes into consideration the company’s leadership, quality, involvement in NAIOP, financial stability, social consciousness and ability to adapt to prevailing market conditions.
Southeast Venture is a full service real estate services company, actively engaged in the development, brokerage, management and design of commercial real estate assets.
The firm is the largest owner and manager in MetroCenter. In November, the firm broke ground on a new 100,000-square-foot MetroCenter office building for the HealthSpring Medicare Advantage plan, a project designed and managed by Southeast Venture. When the HealthSpring building is complete, just 53 acres of undeveloped land will remain in MetroCenter, which is less than 10 percent of the business parks total usable land of approximately 650 acres.
Acting as a development manager, Southeast Venture also completed the successful rezoning of approximately 35 acres at Mallory Park in Brentwood from residential to commercial property for Tennsco, and is actively marketing this property for sale or development.
The other Developing Leader award nominees are Dan Bauchiero, Eakin Partners; Robby Davis, Cassidy Turley; Chris Grear, Colliers International; and Todd Prevost, Cornerstone | Cushman & Wakefield.
Lifepoint Names three senior IT directors
Three new senior directors have joined LifePoint Hospitals’ Information Technology & Services (IT&S) department. Jason Chaffin, John Faust and David Young will collaborate with LifePoint division senior leadership teams and hospital executives across 52 hospital campuses to execute strategic information technology initiatives nationwide.
Chaffin has been named senior director of clinical systems. Previously, Chaffin served as director of clinical information systems at Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) and held positions at Community Health Systems. He holds an MBA from Tennessee State University and a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from Western Kentucky University.
Faust is joining LifePoint as senior director of financial and ancillary systems. He spent 13 years at Community Health Systems as vice president of financial and clinical systems and nine years at Healthcare Management Systems. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Mississippi.
Young has been named senior director of program management. Prior to joining LifePoint, Young served as senior vice president of planning and technology at HighPoint Health Systems, formerly Sumner Regional Health Systems. Young holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Memphis State University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS).
Chaffin, Faust and Young report to Sean Tuley, LifePoint’s senior vice president for IT&S.
Cross takes new post at Children’s Hospital
Janet Cross has been appointed director of patient and family-centered care for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
She will lead teams from Child Life, Volunteer Services, Family Resource Center, School Program, Music and Art Therapy and Pastoral Care. In her previous position, Cross was director of Child Life Services.
Cross, a nationally and internationally known Child Life Services expert, has spent nearly three decades of service at Children’s Hospital.
Since arriving at Vanderbilt in 1982, she has held various positions, including Certified Child Life Specialist, director of the Junior League Family Resource Center and director of Child Life Services.
She also was president of the Child Life Council in 2008, and in 2010 she was selected as one of five program reviewers for the Child Life Council to provide consultation for Child Life Programs around the world.
Cross earned a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture, home economics and child development from Mississippi State University.
She has her master’s degree in child development, psychology and human development from Peabody College.
VICC’s Lovly receives lung cancer grant
Uniting Against Lung Cancer, a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding innovative lung cancer research in the United States and Canada, has awarded a $100,000 grant to Christine Lovly, M.D., Ph.D., a fellow in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
The two-year grant will fund Lovly’s research on better treatment options for a subset of lung cancer patients harboring specific genomic alterations in the ALK gene.
More than 200,000 people are diagnosed with lung cancer every year in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society.
Lung cancer has few symptoms during the early stages of the disease, so it is often found late, which is one of the reasons lung cancer kills more people than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined.