Transformer Leadership Learning Community (2011 - 2013)

Participants

Mary Adam
Mary Adam serves as Executive Director of Pioneer Health Network in Garden City, Kansas.

Deena Dodd
Deena Dodd is the Director of Indiana Statewide Rural Health Network (InSRHN).

Heather Fuller
Heather Fuller has been the Executive Director for the Sunflower Health Network since 2005. She has spent most of her career working in rural health to assist in the development of partnerships and collaboration to share local resources. She currently serves on the Kansas Hospital Association’s HIT advisory board, the council on policy and advocacy, and the Community Health Assessment technical advisory group. She also serves as a board member of the National Cooperative of Health Networks and the Kansas Association of Healthcare Executives. Heather received her MS at Kansas State University and is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Chris Hopkins
Chris Hopkins, a native of San Diego, has worked in Healthcare for over 22 years. His healthcare career started out in the finance department at University of Utah Health Sciences Center in Salt Lake City where he managed the CDM and Decision Support Departments. Chris worked for Sisters of Charity Leavenworth Health Systems in their Montana affiliates as Director of Patient Financial Services and as VP of Operations and as a Hospital Administrator for a critical access facility. Currently Chris is Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Montana Health Network. Chris is responsible for bringing new service lines to the network and providing increased services at reduced costs for the rural facilities in Montana. Chris also oversees the education program which is an extensive clinical education program operating in Montana and North Dakota. Chris has a bachelor’s degree from Humboldt State University, Arcata California and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Utah.

Dave Johnson
Dave currently serves as the Director of Member Relations & Business Development for RWHC (Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative). In this roll Dave is responsible for working with the 34 Member Hospitals to build upon their existing relationships with RWHC and one another, and aligning resources and opportunities for shared service development among the Members. Dave has been working for RWHC since August of 2009.

Toniann Richard
Toniann Richard is Executive Director of the Health Care Collaborative of Rural Missouri, a Rural Health Network funded by the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City and Health Resource Services Administration (HRSA). Toniann’s career goals for the organization are to successfully develop a rural Health Information Technology Network for the providers and is working with the Network to develop highly effective service delivery models for vulnerable populations. Toniann firmly believes that organizations are more successful when they partner with others and she aspires to teach others how to learn from their successes and challenges.

Sally Trnka
Sally Trnka has been with the Northern Lakes Health Consortium (National Rural Health Resource Center) since 2009.  She also provides support and educational resources to networks nationwide, and provides technical assistance to the Rural Health Information Technology Network Development (RHITND) grantees. She works with the Veteran’s Administration at the state, regional and national level.  She also leads up the public relations and marketing of the organizations.  Sally received degrees in Political Science and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire and is pursuing a M.B.A. at the College of St. Scholastica.

Carolyn Witherspoon
Carolyn Witherspoon is Executive Director of Coaltion of Health Services in Amarillo, Texas. She is a NCHN board member and has served as President and Vice President of NCHN.