The broker who studied medical sciences before mastering real estate
Principal Broker · Lucero Commercial Group · Founder, PRAXIS Healthcare Real Estate
Mya Qi, MPH is a rare intersection — a healthcare commercial real estate principal broker whose academic foundation is not in business or finance, but in public health and health systems. Mya earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alberta and a Master of Public Health from the University of Toronto before building a career in commercial real estate, ultimately founding PRAXIS as the dedicated healthcare practice of Lucero Commercial Group.
Mya's academic training in public health — spanning health systems design, epidemiology, health policy, healthcare administration, population health, and clinical research methodology — gives her a vocabulary, an intuition, and a framework that no amount of commercial real estate experience alone can replicate. When she reads a facility program, reviews a clinical brief, or sits across from a health authority administrator, she is not being educated in real-time — she already speaks that language.
From the laboratory to the deal table
The path from public health to commercial real estate is not an obvious one — and that is precisely what makes PRAXIS exceptional. Where other brokers develop their understanding of healthcare through transactional exposure, Mya built hers through rigorous academic study of how health systems are designed, funded, and delivered — the administrative, regulatory, and operational infrastructure that healthcare real estate must serve. That foundation shapes everything: how she evaluates a clinical space, how she structures a development brief, and how she positions her clients' assets.
Mya founded PRAXIS after recognizing a persistent gap in the Canadian commercial real estate market: healthcare operators, physician groups, and health investors were being served by generalists who lacked the clinical vocabulary, the regulatory literacy, and the sector conviction to truly advocate for this specialized asset class. PRAXIS was built to fill that gap — and her scientific background is the competitive moat no competitor can cross.
Dual Provincial Licensing
Mya is dually licensed as a Principal Broker under the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) and the Real Estate Council of Alberta (RECA). This is a rare combination that gives PRAXIS clients a single trusted advisor across Canada's two largest healthcare real estate markets — Ontario and Alberta — without the coordination costs, fee duplication, or knowledge gaps that come from working with multiple brokerages.
Brokerage & Development Advisory
PRAXIS covers the full real estate lifecycle — from the search for a physician's first clinic space or a dentist's first office to the ground-up construction of a long-term care home, retirement residence, or purpose-built healthcare campus. Mya's trading license permits her to advise on acquisitions, dispositions, and investment transactions, while her development advisory spans land assembly, feasibility analysis, build-to-suit program structuring, and project management oversight on behalf of clients.
Clinical Fluency
Mya understands MOH licensing requirements, MOHLTC regulatory frameworks, AHS capital approval processes, infection control standards, clinical workflow design, and accessibility codes — as a matter of course.
Direct Access, Always
Every PRAXIS client works directly with Mya. No junior associates. No handoffs. The same scientific rigour and professional accountability from first call to final close.
Operator Intelligence
Because Mya has studied how healthcare is delivered, she understands how healthcare operators think. Real estate decisions that are grounded in clinical reality — not just cap rates and lease comps.