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Shore Health announces new board members [EMBIN (Emerging Markets Business Information News](EMBIN (Emerging Markets Business Information News) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) University of Maryland Shore Regional Health announced Oct. 30 the appointment of four new members to its board of directors. John Dillon of Oxford chairs the 24-member board, which consists of business and community leaders and physicians from throughout the five-county region served by UM Shore Regional Health. Joining the Shore Regional Health board are Kathleen Deoudes, Queenstown; J. Wayne Howard, Preston; Geoffrey F. Oxnam, Easton; and Dr. Thomas Stauch, Trappe, according to a news release from UM Shore Regional Health. Deoudes is retired from a career as a legislative aide in the Maryland Senate. She was a key member of the fundraising team for the freestanding UM Shore Emergency Center at Queenstown and chairs its community association. She is chairman of the board of directors for the former Hospice of Queen Anne's now known as Compass Regional Hospice. In 2013, she was named a Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay. She received her BA in Sociology from Trinity University in Washington, D.C. Howard works as a health care consultant with Ray & Associates LLC. He retired in 2010 as president and CEO of Choptank Community Health System. He serves on the Mid-Shore Community Foundation board, Caroline County Mental Health Advisory Board, and the Caroline County Health Task Force. He holds a BS in Education from University of Bridgeport and an MS in Human Resource Management from Wilmington University. Oxnam is the vice president of operations at Easton Utilities. He is involved in a variety of community activities and boards, including the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum board, Easton Rotary, Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore and the Maryland Broadband Cooperative Inc. board. In 2013, he was named Talbot County Business Man of the Year. He received his BA from Williams College and his MBA from the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. Stauch is an orthopedic surgeon at the Orthopedic Center in Easton. He received his undergraduate degree from Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania and his medical degree from t he Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed his orthopedic residency at George Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C., and a hand and upper extremity fellowship at St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital in New York. Current board members also include Dr. Michael D. Joyce, Richard Loeffler and David Milligan of Cambridge; Dr. Deborah Davis, Edwin R. Fry, C. Daniel Saunders and William J. Washington of Chestertown; Keith McMahan of Federalsburg; Stuart Bounds, Ph.D., Charles Capute, Wayne L. Gardner Sr., James Peterson and Martha Russell of Easton; Dr. Joseph J. Ciotola of Grasonville; John Dillon of Oxford; John W. Ashworth of St. Michaels; Marlene Feldman of Trappe; Robert Swam of Worton; Kenneth Kozel, CEO, UM Shore Regional Health, and Robert A. Chrencik, CEO, UMMS. “The diverse backgrounds, leadership skills and business experience of our new board members will enhance our Board of Directors and continue to position us to meet the current and future health care needs of the people served by Shore Regional Health,†John Dillon, chairman of the UM Shore Regional Health board of directors, said in the release. “We look forward to their insights and contributions in helping UM SRH perform its mission of creating healthier communities together within the five counties of the Mid-Shore region.†(c) 2014 EMBIN (Emerging Markets Business Information News) Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |