Leadership

Chair

Paula L. Pedene, APR
Public Affairs Officer
Phoenix Veteran Affairs Health Care System
Phoenix, AZ

Chair-Elect

Nancy F. Hughes
Assistant Vice President, Communications & Marketing
National Health Council
Washington, DC

Immediate Past Chair

T. Garland Stansell
Chief Communications Officer, Corporate Communications
Children's Health System and Hospital
Birmingham, AL

Secretary

Beth L. Toal
P R Mgr
Saint Luke's Health System
Boise, ID

Members At-Large

Deborah A. Davis, ABC, APR
Principal
Triad Public Relations Inc.
Fishers, IN

Leigh Fazzina
Principal
Fazzina & Co. Communications Consulting

Jackie D. Fishman, APR

Ben Garrett
Executive Producer
Vidicom
Atlanta, GA

Lorri A. Jandron
President & CEO
Edge Partnerships
Lansing, MI

Elizabeth E. Johnson
VP, Pub Affrs & Mktg
Blue Mountain Health System
Lehighton, PA

Marc Kaplan
Dir, Commun
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Ellen Beth Levitt
Dir Pub Affrs & Media Rel
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, MD

Joyce A. Lofstrom, APR
Senior Mgr, Corp Commun
HIMSS
Chicago, IL

Sonja Popp-Stahly, APR
Associate Communications Consultant
Eli Lilly and Company
Indianapolis, IN

Dennis K. Tartaglia
President
Tartaglia Communications
Somerset, NJ

Kurt A. Wise, Ph.D., APR
Chair, Public Relations Dept.
Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT

Drenda Williams Witt
Director, Collaborative Network Marketing
JPS Health Network
Fort Worth, TX