Cushman & Wakefield has welcomed Sushil Puria to company’s national healthcare advisory practice. Puria will serve as an executive director on the healthcare capital markets team and be based in the firm’s Nashville office.

Puria will focus on sourcing and executing healthcare capital markets transactions nationally for real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. He will also work closely with members of the healthcare advisory practice to support the firm’s healthcare provider clients, including healthcare systems, physician practices and ancillary services providers, in providing strategies to leverage their real estate portfolios to optimize both their footprints and their balance sheets.

Puria has 15 years of experience acquiring medical office buildings across the US as a first VP at Healthcare Realty, where he led the sourcing and acquisition of $2.26 billion worth of healthcare real estate.