CLASS NOTES

TIM AHLERS (05MHA) is CEO of Guttenberg Municipal Hospital & Clinics in Guttenberg, Iowa.

ALEXIS BARBOUR FLORCZAK (06MHA) is system vice president of specialty and surgical services at AMITA Health in Downers Grove, Illinois.

ANN BOBST (14MPH) is legislative liaison, health care administration, at the Minnesota Department of Human Services in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

MICHAEL D. BOYER (92MS) is an environmental health and safety specialist at Ball Aerospace in Broomfield, Colorado.

JACE BRADY (17MHA) is director of imaging, quality and ambulatory operations at Sentara Careplex Hospital in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

TIMOTHY CHWIRKA (12MHA) is an associate consultant at Huron in Des Moines, Iowa.

LANCE A. CLARK (15MHA) is administrator, hospital medicine, at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia.

EMMA COLE (19MPH) is a health policy analyst at LMI in McLean, Virginia.

WILLIAM CYRS (09MS) is an industrial hygienist at Tesla in San Francisco, California.

BECKY DEBUS (97MS) is a statistical programmer at medical device maker Medtronic in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was recently appointed a Technical Fellow in recognition of significant and consistent contributions to the technical and scientific goals of Medtronic.

JOHN DIEDERICH (93MA) is president and CEO of Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, Illinois.

ANNA HERRING-VANRYSWYK (05MS) is an epidemiologist and ELR project manager at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, in Raleigh, North Carolina.

LEI HUA (10PhD, 07MS) is director of biostatistics at BeiGene in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

JORGE GALVA (04MHA) is executive director of the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration (PRHIA) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. PRHIA is the public corporation in charge of Plan Vital, the Puerto Rico government health insurance plan.

H. LESTER KIRCHNER (99PhD, 96MS) is professor and chair, Department of Population Health Sciences, at Geisinger in Danville, Pennsylvania.

NICHOLAS LENARD (14MHA) is director of strategy and business operations at Delta Direct Care in Vancouver, Washington.

CORY MEAD (13MHA) is chief operating officer of HCA TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

LESLIE MCCLURE (97MS) is professor and chair at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health and is featured in a March 1, 2020, American Statistical Association’s AMStatNews profile celebrating women in statistics. The profile also highlights her role as a mentor and her commitment to advocating for women and underrepresented minorities in the math sciences.

JEREMY MURDOCK (15MHA) is chief operating officer at Presbyterian Hospital, part of Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

SAMUEL PANG (19MPH) is a food safety specialist at State of Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals in Iowa City, Iowa.

RAVISH PATEL (16MPH) is a health analytics developer at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in Chicago, Illinois.

DOMINICA REHBEIN (14MHA, 14MPH) is group practice director for the Joint Replacement Program at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan.

AARON REINKE (19MPH) is an epidemiologist at Black Hawk County Health Department in Waterloo, Iowa.

MALLORY SNYDER (14MPH) is pharmacy business manager at Children’s Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

SHARESE VAN SLOTEN (15MHA) is operations director, Cardiovascular Service Line, at UnityPoint Health in West Des Moines, Iowa.

QIAN WANG (06MS) is senior manager at Abbott Laboratories Trading Company Ltd. in Shanghai City, China.

NI (JENNIE) ZHANG (12PhD, 11MPH) is an assistant professor at the Department of Public Health and Recreation in San Jose State University in San Jose, California.

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