NAHQ 2009 Teams

Click here for a chart of teams ranking from beginning to advanced level of experience in healthcare quality.


Awards Team
Team Leader: Glynn Fraker
Co-Team Leader: Dale Harvey

2nd Year
Leanora DiUglio
Marcia Hargreaves

1st Year
Linda Liewer
Laura Schwartze
Bob Stakem
Patricia Yurchick


Conference Planning Team
Team Leader: Sandra Jones
Co-Team Leader: Michelle Franklin

2nd Year
P. Mardi Atkins
Susan Nance

1st Year
Denise Myrick
Sarah Pavelka

Papers & Posters
2nd Year
Barbara Duffy

1st Year
Susan Hendrickson
Michelle Horvath
Laura Lindberg
Lynn Pelligrino


Fellowship Review Board
Team Leader: Sarah Tackett
Co-Team Leader: Betty Brown

2nd Year
Mary Huddleston
Renae Spohn

1st Year
Lee Ann Hanna
Nancy Lima


Healthcare Quality Foundation
Team Leader: Stephanie Iorio
Co-Team Leader: Lee Dobson

Nancy Claflin
Janet Dauman
Terri Savino
Ed Vasko, Jr.


JHQ Team
Maulik Joshi, Editor in Chief
Susan V. White, Interviews Editor
Wayne E. Soo Hoo, Research Methods Consultant: Quantitative Methods Editor
Kathleen Tornow Chai, Research Methods Consultant: Qualitative Methods Editor
Diane Storer Brown, Research Methods Consultant: Survey Methods Editor
Marilyn Harz, Continuing Education Editor
Kathleen K. Mechler, Special Projects Editor
Kevin Park, Special Projects Editor
Pam K. Scarrow, Special Projects Editor


The Joint Commission PTAC Team
Team Leader: Diane Brown

Returning Members
Gayle Bielanski
Pati Hildebrand
Ann Latstetter
Maria Lowe
Kathleen Mechler
Mark Milner
Denise Weisberg

1st Year
Carol Clark
Anne Heins
Sherry Mazer


Nominating Team
Team Leader: Cathy Munn, Immediate Past President

2nd Year
Phyllis Dorrough
Roya Nassirpour

1st Year
Leigh Humphrey
Jack Jefferies
Julie Moore
Judy Pugach
Sandra Robinson
Thom Smith


NQF Rapid Response Team
Team Leader: Barbara Corn
Co-Team Leader: Jan Orton

Acute/Disease Management
Linda Comer
Linda Ostermier
Julia Rieve
Victoria Ruetten
Susan Wante
Terry Willis

Behavioral
Linda Appel

Home Care/Long Term
Mary Agnes Rutkowski


Special Interest Group Team
Team Leader: Sherry Mazer

Acute Care Facilitator: Nancy Curdy
Behavioral Health Facilitator: Scott Beardsley
Critical Access/Rural Facilitator: Charlie White
Home Care Facilitator: Sandra Robinson
Long Term Care Facilitator: Jeanenne Clark
Managed Care Facilitator: Constance Yancy


State Leaders Summit Task Team

Suzanne Ciricillo
Val Emery
Debra Flores
Sally Irrgang
Donna Scott 


Past Presidents Council
Leader: Cathy Munn (2009)

Rebecca Dimitroff Jones (1976)
Becky Jones (1977)
Becky Eiss (1978)
Sandra Ambrosi (1979)
Robert Warner (1980)
Barbara Hubbard Conway (1981, 1984)
Patsy Flensborg (1982)
Mary Howland (1983)
Anna Prescott (1985)
Kay Speece (1986)
Ann Schmitt (1987)
Kay Cerjak (1988)
Pat Lefkowitz-Ziegler (1989)
Sherry Peterson (1990)
Judy Homa-Lowry (1991)
Sandra Bassett Robinson (1992)
Claire Davis (1993)
Frank Appel (1994)
Jean Macrander (1995)
Janet Brown (1996)
Sarah Tackett (1997)
Diane Rogier (1998)
Diane Mikell (1999)
Jennifer Brown (2000)
Kathryn Clinefelter (2001)
Faye Wilson (2002)
lj Guthmann (2003)
Nancy Claflin (2004)
John Hartley (2005)
Anna Marie Butrie (2006)
Heidi Benson (2007)
Thomas Smith (2008)