UNMC’s Board of Counselors elected officers for 2006 at the annual board meeting on April 24. Officers are Kathy Campbell, chairperson, Lincoln; and Bob Kully, vice chairperson, Omaha.
The group welcomed 11 new members at the meeting held at the Durham Research Center Auditorium.
New board members by hometown are:
Blair – Donna Mahlendorf, former relationship manager with Dun and Bradstreet and now civic leader;
Lincoln – E. Susan Gourley, Ed.D., superintendent of the Lincoln Public Schools;
Nebraska City – JoDee Adelung, mayor and owner of Temps, Inc.;
Omaha – Tawanna Black, executive director of Destination Midtown; Ivan Gilreath, senior vice president of group insurance products, Mutual of Omaha; Jamie Gutierrez, president and owner of Midwest Maintenance, a building service contracting company; Ted Hazer, a retired investor and former member of UNMC’s Board of Counselors; Wesley Hutcherson, director of purchasing for mechanical, informational technology and general needs, Union Pacific Railroad;
Phillips – Tammy Allen, R.N., works at Advanced Radiology in Grand Island, and currently serves as president of the Nebraska Medical Association Alliance;
Valentine – Joanne F. Shephard, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of First National Bank of Valentine; and
Wayne – Rod Tompkins, majority owner of Heritage Homes of Nebraska, Inc.
Other members of the board and their hometowns are:
Alliance – Frank Tolstedt.
Aurora – Jason Schneider.
Chadron – G. Richard Myers.
Columbus – Don Heimes and Tony Raimondo.
Hastings – Bob Allen, Gale Beirow and Jan Scherr.
Holdrege – Roy Pearson.
Lexington – Thomas Fagot, D.D.S.
Lincoln – Charles Calhoun, Kathryn Duncan Thompson, Monte Froehlich, Marilyn Harris, JoAnn Martin, Tonn Ostergard, Patricia Pansing Brooks and Art Thompson.
Loomis – Russ Edeal.
Macy – Wehnona St. Cyr.
North Platte – Wes Grady, Rick Kolkman and Cindy Way.
Ogallala – Katherine Chu.
Omaha – John Barrientos, Maurice Cox, Sandy Dodge, Jan Dutton, Magdalena Garcia, Thomas Gensler, Don Goldstein, Sandford Goodman, Gerald Hoberman, Susan Jacques, Larry Kavich, Belinda Malone, Steve McWhorter, Barbara Musselman, Randall Palandri, Cyndy Peacock, Rick Russell, Maria Valentin, Mimi Waldbaum, Carole Woods Harris and Tracy Zaiss.
Seward – Roger Reamer.
Sidney – Linda Shoemaker.
Valley – Darrel Moreland.
The UNMC Board of Counselors is a group of 61 community and business leaders from across the state who advise UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., on health care issues of importance.