UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Highlands Ranch Hospital, Longs Peak Hospital, and Broomfield Hospital

University of Colorado Hospital is a financially and legally independent entity overseen by an 11-member Board of Directors. Our current board members are a distinguished blend of academic, business and medical leaders.

Board of Directors: University of Colorado Hospital Authority

Don Elliman

Chancellor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Chancellor of the CU Anschutz Medical Campus since 2012, Don Elliman boasts a successful track record in business and a high-quality reputation in higher education.

A longtime publishing executive at Time Warner for 32 years, Elliman was publisher of People magazine and president of Sports Illustrated before retiring as an executive vice president of Time Inc.

Elliman served four years as CEO of Ascent Sports and then Kroenke Sports Enterprises, overseeing all activities of the Pepsi Center, the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche.

He then served four years in Colorado state government under Gov. Bill Ritter, as executive director of the Office of Economic Development and International Trade, and then as chief operating officer for Colorado.

Following his time with the Governor’s Office, Elliman was executive director of the CU School of Medicine’s Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine.

Elliman’s board service includes Children’s Hospital Colorado (former chair, and co-chair of the campaign to raise funds for its new hospital, current board member), Fitzsimons Innovation Center, Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine, UCHealth, University of Colorado Hospital Authority Board, Colorado Prevention Center, Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome, National Mental Health Innovation Center, the Higher Learning Commission and Western Stock Show Association.

Richard L. Monfort

Mr. Monfort is the Owner, Chairman and CEO of the Colorado Rockies Baseball Club. He represents Congressional District 4 on the board.

Background – In 1987 Mr. Monfort became President of Monfort of Colorado, a family-owned cattle business. In 1991 the company merged with ConAgra Red Meats Inc. and he served as President and Chief Executive Officer until he retired in 1994. He owns the Hyatt Grand Champions Hotel in Palm Springs, California, the Hilltop Steak House in Boston and interests in various commercial real estate ventures in Denver and Greeley. He helped to launch the Montera Cattle Co. in 1996 and in 1997 opened the first Brett Favre Steak House in Milwaukee and has since opened a second location in Green Bay. Mr. Monfort is the Chairman of the University of Northern Colorado Board of Trustees, and he serves on the Boards of Colorado Economic Development, the Venture Capital Authority and the Denver Zoo. He is very active in philanthropy and has spearheaded a program that gives money to families of the Colorado National Guard and military reservists from Colorado stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait. He is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in business management. He resides in Greeley with his family.

Todd Saliman

Todd Saliman was named president of the University of Colorado in June 2021. He will serve in the interim as the CU Board of Regents conducts a national search for a permanent president.

Background – Before serving as president, Saliman was CU’s senior vice president for strategy, government relations and chief financial officer. He has 30 years of experience working on higher education and public policy in Colorado. He served in the Cabinet for two governors and is a former member of the Colorado General Assembly. While interim president, he will continue with some of his senior vice president duties.

From 2007–2010, Saliman was a member of Gov. Bill Ritter’s Cabinet and senior staff. As director of the Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting, he represented the governor as he worked with the legislature to develop and implement the state’s budget and other legislative and strategic initiatives. His team worked with every state department to build the governor’s budget request – submitted annually to the Colorado legislature – and recommended and implemented plans to keep the budget balanced throughout the fiscal year. His office also prepared quarterly economic forecasts for the state. He guided the state budget during the great recession, which began in 2008.

When Gov. Hickenlooper was elected, Saliman continued on as a senior advisor during the Governor’s first legislative session to provide guidance and support on state budget and policy issues.

Todd served eight years in the Colorado legislature (1995–2002), four of which were spent serving on the Joint Budget Committee. He also owned and operated a lobbying firm that represented some of the most prominent organizations and governmental entities in the state, including the University of Colorado.

Saliman was born and raised in Colorado and is an alumnus of the University of Colorado Boulder.

John Reilly, MD

John Reilly, MD, is the Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He holds the Richard D. Krugman Endowed Chair and joined the University in April 2015.

Background – Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Dr. Reilly was at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine beginning in 2008. In 2011, he was appointed the Jack D. Myers Professor and Chair for the Department of Medicine. Dr. Reilly’s education and training include an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Dartmouth and his medical degree from Harvard, with postgraduate work at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City.

Dr. Reilly has overseen the grants administration enterprise for the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, providing a broad view of academic research there and enabling him to further shape his ideas for the elements of success in research. His personal research activities are focused on various pulmonary diseases, including emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer.

In addition to his participation in multidisciplinary research, Dr. Reilly has extensive experience in creating and working in multidisciplinary clinical programs. He participated in the founding of the Lung Transplant program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1992, and since then he has worked in a comprehensive lung cancer program, a multidisciplinary critical care service running a surgical intensive care unit and two lung volume reduction surgery programs. In his role as department chair at the University of Pittsburgh, he reorganized the liver and renal transplant areas to a more integrated model where they can function as a unified team.

Faculty development and mentorship are important components of his leadership. Dr. Reilly has a long and consistent track record of both research and clinical mentorship of faculty and trainees. He strives to identify talented individuals, providing them with the strategic vision and the autonomy to carry out their work and then continuing to work with them to solve problems and remove barriers identified in the course of business. Dr. Reilly is keenly aware of the challenges facing academic medicine today, from the rapidly changing clinical landscape to funding pressures for research and education dollars. He comments on the contributions that the nation’s academic medical centers make in our society with regard to patient care, teaching and research and that the “role of leadership is in providing the infrastructure that keeps these three missions together and allows people to do what they do best.”

Julie Scott, MD

Dr. Scott was elected as President of the Medical Staff for a two-year term beginning January 1, 2021 and is an at-large member of the Board. The bylaws of the University of Colorado Hospital require that the President of the Medical Staff be a member of the Board of Directors.

Background – Dr. Scott is an Associate Professor of Clinical Practice in Maternal Fetal Medicine through the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She has been with the University for 10 years. She completed her residency at Banner University in Phoenix, Arizona and her fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine through the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology and is board certified in OB/GYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine. Her leadership roles have included inpatient Medical Director of Labor & Delivery at UC Health Anschutz, MFM Practice Director at UCHA, Medical Director of MFM Services at Boulder Community Hospital and Longmont United Hospital.

She is passionate about the care of women with complicated pregnancies, and has served as the co-director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease OB Program and the Placenta Accreta Program at the University of Colorado Hospital. Nationally, she has been active in the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine and served as a moderator for the Critical Care forum for the Annual Pregnancy Meeting. Additionally, she has served as a vital contributor to several other hospital committees with goals of high quality patient care, safety and clinical practice effectiveness.

In addition to clinical practice, she is an educator to medical learners, with recognition of these efforts as ACOG Mentor of the Year, District VIII in 2018. She has earned the recognition of Physician Partners in Care award from the University of Colorado Hospital and 5280: Denver’s Magazine Top Doctors -The Top Physicians Selected by Their Peers.

Ray Baker

Ray Baker is a partner at Gold Crown Management Company, a real estate management firm established in 1977 in Greenwood Village.

Background – Mr. Baker serves on several Boards of Directors, including the Denver Metropolitan Major League Baseball Stadium District and the Metropolitan Football Stadium District; University of Colorado Hospital; University of Colorado Health; University of Colorado Real Estate Foundation; Lakewood High School Foundation; and the Caruso Foundation. He also serves on several bank and corporate boards and is a director for the Judi’s House Endowment and a member of the N.E. Corridor Task Force for National Western. Mr. Baker has been a member of the Blue Ribbon Transportation Panel serving under Governors Romer and Ritter; has served on the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and the CCHE Capital Development Committee; Colorado Economic Development Commission; and Denver Zoological Foundation. He has been a director for Central Parking Corporation, and is a past president for the Colorado Apartment Association and the Apartment Association-Metro Denver.

Lainie P. Minnick

Lainie Minnick is Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager and Chief Financial Officer of Black Creek Diversified Property Fund Inc., an investment platform sponsored by Black Creek Group, a leading real estate investment management firm.

In this role, Ms. Minnick is responsible for overseeing Black Creek Diversified Property Fund Inc.’s portfolio strategy and performance, debt capital markets initiatives, financial reporting and forecasting, treasury management, the application of the fund’s net asset value (NAV) policies and procedures, accounting, tax compliance, and other related areas of responsibilities. Additionally, as Head of Debt Capital Markets for Black Creek Group, she oversees debt capital markets across the firm. Since joining Black Creek in 2007, Ms. Minnick has overseen the execution of over $12 billion of financing transactions.

Background – Ms. Minnick has approximately 25 years of experience within the real estate industry and prior to joining Black Creek she served as Project Executive for Urban Villages, Inc. a Denver-based real estate development firm. Before that she was with Goldman Sachs (NSYE: GS), most recently as Vice President working exclusively with Whitehall Funds, a series of global real estate opportunity funds. Based in both New York and London, Ms. Minnick was responsible for executing real estate related financing transactions throughout the U.S. and Europe. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Ms. Minnick worked for the Archon Group, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, where she was responsible for real estate related portfolio management and loan asset management efforts.

Ms. Minnick served as the inaugural chair of the Women’s Network at Black Creek Group (WNBC), an organization committed to providing professional development opportunities for the women within Black Creek and the business community. Additionally, Ms. Minnick was recognized by Real Estate Forum as a 2018 Woman of Influence.

Ms. Minnick holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Steve Meyer

Steve is CEO of Shaw Construction, one of the leading construction companies in the Rocky Mountain region, with offices in Denver, Grand Junction and Jackson, Wyoming.

Background – A third-generation Colorado native, Steve Meyer was born and raised in Greeley where he still has strong family roots. He attended the United States Naval Academy before transferring to Stanford University where he received a BS in Civil Engineering in 1975. After graduation he worked for several large construction companies, both domestically and overseas, before returning to Colorado in 1978 to join a home building firm with operations in Western Colorado. That year he married Anne Bechtel, his high school sweetheart, and they moved to Grand Junction the following year.

Steve joined Shaw Construction (then only a Denver-based company) as a project manager in 1983 and established its Western Slope Division in Grand Junction. He worked his way up through the company and became President and majority owner in 1995. The company has grown to be a regional leader and is ranked in the top 400 nationally. Shaw Construction is proud to have received four Eagle Awards from the Associated Builders and Contractors for the best projects in the nation. In January of 2013 Steve assumed the position of CEO.

Steve is active in the community, having served on a variety of committees and boards. He is currently a Director of Colorado National Bank and a member of the Colorado Forum. Past involvement includes having been a Trustee for Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University) in Grand Junction, a Board member of Rocky Mountain PBS, the Grand Junction Visitors and Convention Bureau, the AIA Colorado West Chapter, Chairman of the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of the School District 51 Foundation.

Steve is an active private pilot holding a multi-engine instrument rating. Other interests include being an avid biker and mountain climber. He and his wife Anne have three children; Sam a Business graduate from Lehigh University with a Masters Degree from Northwestern now working with Shaw Construction, Caroline a Veterinarian student at the University of Sydney and Will a senior mechanical engineering student at The University of San Diego.

April Jones

Ms. Jones is the Managing CEO of Jones Law Firm, PC.

Background – April Jones is recognized in the legal field and in the Denver business community as a committed and dedicated family law litigator. Her commitment to her clients and passion for the law has drawn the attention of the Denver Post, CORE Media and the Denver Weekly News. Ms. Jones is a legal columnist in Shine Magazine and has written family law articles for Divorce Magazine. She teaches classes on mediation and child and family investigation and is a sought after speaker and lecturer. She is an active member of the legal and non-legal community. She was appointed by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to a six-year term as Nomination Commissioner for the nomination of Justices to the Colorado Supreme Court and the Colorado Court of Appeals. She was also appointed by both Colorado Governor Bill Owens and Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Board where she served a second term as Vice Chair. She is a board member of the Kempe Foundation for the prevention treatment of child abuse and neglect. Ms. Jones is the current Vice President, and former President, of the Sam Cary Bar Association. She is a board member of the Center for Out of Court Divorce and a member of the Family Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association. She is a former board member of Colorado Legal Services, an entity that includes the Colorado Legal Aid Foundation and Metro Volunteer Lawyers. Ms. Jones has volunteered as a family law legal expert on Channel 9 News’ Lawline 9. She is also a founding board member of the American Transplant Foundation, an organization dedicated to creating donor awareness and increased organ donations in Colorado and nationwide.

Elizabeth G. Chambers

Libby Chambers is a board director and advisor, with experience as a senior financial services executive, strategist, and marketing leader. Her experience spans global financial institutions and professional services organizations, based in both the US and the UK.

Background – In addition to the UCHA board, Libby currently serves on the boards of TSB Bank plc, Provident Financial, a FTSE 250 consumer finance provider, and Evelyn Partners, a large private bank providing wealth management, accounting, and tax advisory services. She is also an Operating Partner with Searchlight Capital, a global private equity firm, and serves on the advisory boards of fintech and software companies including Coadjute and ReachMobile/ReachNext. Previous directorships have included Hastings Group plc, Dollar Financial Group, hibu plc (the Yell Group), Home and Savings Bank, and the boards of Barclays’ joint ventures with other global brands.

Libby’s executive career included roles as EVP, Chief Strategy, Product and Marketing Officer of Western Union, the global payments company. She also sat on the board of Western Union’s EU-regulated bank. Prior to Western Union, she held a range of senior marketing roles at Barclays, including serving as Chief Marketing Officer of retail and commercial banking and Barclaycard. She has also held C-level strategy, marketing and business development roles at Bank of America, the Reader’s Digest Association, Bingham McCutchen and Freshfields.

Earlier in her career, Libby was a Partner in the Financial Institutions and Organization practices at McKinsey & Company. While at McKinsey, she co-authored the renowned “War for Talent” study.

A Harvard MBA, she is also a Stanford graduate and started her professional life with Morgan Stanley & Co. Libby is a Colorado native, and splits her time between London and Vail.

Board of Directors Office
Jon Alford, Secretary to the Board of Directors
Kerith Francis, Executive Assistant to the Board of Directors
12401 E. 17th Ave. Mail Stop F415
Aurora, CO 80045-0510

Senior Leadership: University of Colorado Hospital

Our hospital is led day-to-day by a talented and seasoned group of professionals drawn not only from our own ranks, but from other leading hospitals.

President & Chief Executive Officer
Tom Gronow

Chief Operating Officer, UCH
Pradipta Komanduri

Associate General Counsel
[to come]

Vice President, Finance and CFO
Jon Alford

Vice President, Finance
Daniel Schonlau

Vice President, Human Resources
David Mafe

Chief Nursing Executive, UCHealth and Chief Nursing Officer, University of Colorado Hospital
Kathy Howell, MBA, BSN, RN, NEA-BC

Vice President, Operations
Karen Lovett, RN, MS, ACNS-BC, CCNS

Vice President of Advanced Practice and Associate Chief Nursing Officer
Jennifer Rodgers, DNP, ACNP-BC, FAANP

Vice President of Ambulatory and Clinic Operations
Robbie Dumond

Vice President, Perioperative Services
Ella Echavez, MBA, RN, CNOR

Chief Medical Officer
Jean Kutner, MD

Chief Quality Officer
Jennifer Wiler, MD, MBA, FACEP

Medical Staff President
Julie Scott, MD

Medical Board President-Elect
Jean Youngwerth, MD

Board of Directors: Highlands Ranch Hospital

John Kilrow, Chair

Senior Vice President, Shea Properties

John Kilrow has more than 35 years of experience in the real estate business, including land development, vertical development, and sales and marketing.

John has been a member of the development team of several major commercial projects in Metro Denver. He has managed and coordinated the land sales activities for Shea assets. Notable vertical developments during John’s tenure at Shea have included corporate offices for Visa, U.S.A., Northrup Grumman, Frontier Airlines, Shea Centers I & II, Maroon V, Village Center Station, CoBank Center, Charter Communications, Encana Energy, the Highlands Ranch Town Center and Central Park Retail, as well as eight grocery-anchored retail centers and 1,100 units of apartments.

John is involved with several civic and governmental boards, including the Board of Directors of Highlands Ranch Metropolitan District #5, Centennial Water and Sanitation District, the Chatfield Reallocation Project, UCHealth (Highlands Ranch campus) and the nonprofit, Food for Thought. He is president of the Highlands Ranch Commercial Property Owners’ Associations, Assistant Chair of the Denver Tech Center Architectural Control Committee and a member of the Meridian Design Control Committee.

John is a licensed real estate broker in the State of Colorado and a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Michael Cancro, Vice Chair

Chief Strategy Officer, UCHealth / Interim President and CEO, University of Colorado Hospital

Michael Cancro serves as the chief strategy officer for UCHealth, a nationally recognized health care system with operating revenue of $4.4 billion and a workforce of 22,100 people.

Mr. Cancro joined UCHealth in December 2012 and is responsible for leading corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, planning, special projects, provider relations, and outreach and business development.

Mr. Cancro also serves as the interim chief executive officer of University of Colorado Hospital (UCH), a nationally recognized academic medical center with almost 700 inpatient beds and 6,000 employees. UCH is the only academic medical center in Colorado and is the academic hub of the UCHealth system. As interim CEO of UCH, Mr. Cancro also oversees other locations in metro Denver including Broomfield Hospital, Highlands Ranch Hospital and numerous ambulatory medical centers.

Prior to joining UCHealth, Mr. Cancro worked at Deloitte Consulting, serving some of the nation’s leading health care systems and payers. His work was primarily focused on enterprise strategy development, mergers and acquisitions, operational and financial performance improvement, project management, new business ventures, population health, innovation, and business development initiatives.

Mr. Cancro attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for both his master’s and undergraduate degrees.

Mr. Cancro and his wife Sara live in the metro Denver area with their three children.

Gretchen Ahrendt, MD

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Gretchen Ahrendt is a Professor of Surgery and Director of the Diane O’Connor Thompson Breast Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She is a board certified surgeon with specialty training in breast surgery. Her clinical practice is devoted to the care and management of patients with breast cancer as well as benign breast conditions.

Dr. Ahrendt graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed her residency and fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Colorado in 2016, Dr. Ahrendt served as the Division Chief for the Breast Surgical Oncology Division at the University of Pittsburgh and was the co-Director of the comprehensive Breast Cancer Program at UPMC. During her tenure there, she led the expansion of the breast surgery program from one site to 4 sites with integration of breast surgery services with the UPMC Cancer Centers across western Pennsylvania. She developed an accredited Breast Surgery Fellowship Program that trained future leaders in breast surgery.

Throughout her career, Dr. Ahrendt has been invested in clinical research and has been involved in pivotal trails that define surgery of the axilla in breast cancer. She has contributed over 80 peer-reviewed publications and participates in several National Committees.

Dr. Ahrendt is married to Dr. Steven Ahrendt, a fellowship trained Surgical Oncologist. She is the mother of three daughters. Outside of work, Dr. Ahrendt loves time with her family hiking, skiing, running, cycling, and fine dining.

Andrew Cantor

Vice President, UDR

Mr. Cantor joined UDR, Inc. in September 2009 as Vice President – Investor Relations and transitioned into his current role as Vice President – Acquisitions and Dispositions in 2012.

Prior to joining the company, Mr. Cantor was with Archstone for ten years, beginning in the Corporate Headquarters in Englewood, Colorado from 2000 to 2007, and then with Archstone B.V., in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 2007 to 2009. Mr. Cantor held various positions of increasing responsibility including Assistant Vice President – Capital Markets and Group Vice President – Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. In August 2007, he transitioned to Group Vice President, for Archstone B.V., a subsidiary of Archstone that owned and operated residential real estate in Germany. Before joining Archstone, he was with ProLogis.

Mr. Cantor holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration/Finance from Colorado State University. He is a member of NMHC and the Urban Land Institute. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the YMCA of Metropolitan Denver and the Board of Directors for UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital.

Kurt Schwartzkopf
[bio to come]

Senior Leadership: Highlands Ranch Hospital

President
Merle Taylor (interim)

Chief Medical Officer
David Sobel, MD

Chief Nursing Officer
Cathleen Ehrenfeucht, MS, RN

Vice President, Operations
Christopher Bianca

Director of Finance
Janiece McNichols

Director of Human Resources
Sara Marbry

Longs Peak Hospital Board of Directors

Greg Ludlow, Chair

Greg Ludlow is a third-generation member of the northern Colorado agriculture and business community. Mr. Ludlow currently manages his family’s Colorado farming operation, following his retirement as the Sr. Vice President of Guaranty Bank and Trust in Longmont, Colorado. He worked in the commercial banking industry in Greeley and Longmont for over 30 years.

Greg graduated from Colorado State University with a BSBA with a major in Finance. He went on to obtain his Master of Agriculture from Texas A&M University, and graduated from the University of Colorado Graduate School of Banking.

Greg is an active volunteer in the Longmont community. Volunteer efforts include TLC Learning Center, Colorado Livestock Association, Special Olympics and Twin Peaks Rotary. He is also an avid fly fisherman.

Greg and his wife, Cathy, reside in Longmont.

Steve Laughlin, Vice Chair

Steve is known for helping retail and consumer product clients worldwide to transform their business models and consumer-facing activities. He is a leader in implementing complex business and technology solutions that drive improved performance. In January 2017, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) listed him among the “Top Industry Transformers.”

Steve leads IBM’s Consumer Industry across the company’s portfolio which includes retail, consumer products, wholesale distribution, and agri-business. His organization is responsible for defining IBM’s industry strategy, creating thought leadership, developing offerings and industry solutions, growing industry subject matter expertise, building delivery capabilities and capacity, advancing client relationships, and supporting business development teams.

He has 20+ years experience in the consulting and technology services industry serving clients and managing global and domestic practices. In the past he led key IBM consulting practices including the company’s global Retail and Consumer Products, global Smarter Commerce and the Growth Markets Application Innovation businesses.

Steve began his career in store management at Sears, Roebuck & Co. then entered consulting with Ernst & Young. He serves on the National Retail Federation and Retail Industry Leaders Association boards of directors and as an advisor to the World Retail Congress. Steve serves his local community as a member of the board of directors for UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital.

Steve Hess

Steve has been working in the health care IT field for over 27 years. Steve was named the Chief Information Officer of UCHealth in 2012. UCHealth is a Colorado-based health care system that includes 12 hospitals, including the Rocky Mountain region’s only academic medical center, University of Colorado Hospital, and over 150 clinics throughout Colorado, Wyoming and Western Nebraska.

Steve and his team have been focused on implementing consolidated and standardized IT systems across all of UCHealth’s hospitals and clinics, creating a foundation for innovation and transformational care. From 2009 to 2012, Steve was CIO of University of Colorado Hospital where he oversaw the implementation of the Epic EMR and Lawson ERP solutions there. Prior to that, Steve was CIO at Christiana Care Health System in Delaware for five years.

In addition to the EMR and ERP background, Steve has extensive experience with Health Information Exchange, Interactive Patient Care Systems, Patient Portals, Advanced Analytics, and Virtual Health.

John Stathis, MD

Dr. John Stathis specializes in invasive and interventional cardiology and has a long history of serving the medical needs of Longmont and the surrounding communities. Dr. Stathis is board certified in general cardiology, interventional cardiology and coronary stenting.

Dr. Stathis completed medical school at the University of Guadalajara in 1981, an internship at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (New York) in 1983, his residency at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (New York) in 1985, and his fellowship at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (New York) in 1987.

He is a member of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Stathis was previously a member of the Colorado Health Medical Group board of directors.

Dan Stroh

Dan is the past Chair of the Poudre Valley Health System board of directors. He is a third generation Larimer county native (born at Poudre Valley Hospital) and owns and operates Stroh & Co. Real Estate and Development in Loveland, Colorado.

Dan is the former president and board member of the Loveland Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he serves as a board member of the National Cutting Horse Association and is a member of the Loveland Rotary Club.

Dan and his wife, Debbie have 2 children and 4 grandchildren.

Karen Stuart

Karen Stuart is a former three-term Mayor of the City and County of Broomfield, Colorado, where she played a key role in the creation of the consolidated city and county in 2001. Stuart had leadership roles with the Denver Regional Council of Governments, the US36 Mayors and Commissioners Coalition, the Metro Mayors Caucus and the National League of Cities Transportation Advisory Committee. Stuart has served on numerous boards throughout her career, including the Front Range Community College Board of Directors, Adams County CASA Board of Directors and Broomfield Veterans’ Memorial Museum Board of Directors.

In 2015 Stuart received the Denver Regional Council of Governments’ Distinguished Service Award and in 2016 was recognized by the Denver Business Journal as a finalist for the Outstanding Women in Business in the Education and Non-Profits category. The Women in Transportation Seminars (WTS) chose Karen Stuart as the Colorado Transportation Woman of the Year in 2020.

Stuart holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and Economics from Marymount College, and a certificate from the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Stuart is currently the Executive Director of Smart Commute Metro North, a non-partisan, non-profit, transportation management organization, serving the north metro region working to promote mobility options that reduce congestion and improve air quality.

Ms. Stuart was appointed in 2017 to the Colorado Transportation Commission and to the High Performance Transportation Enterprise Board (HPTE) in 2019. She is the immediate past chair of the Transportation Commission, and current vice-chair of HPTE.

Broomfield Hospital Board of Directors

Greg Ludlow, Chair

Greg Ludlow is a third-generation member of the northern Colorado agriculture and business community. Mr. Ludlow currently manages his family’s Colorado farming operation, following his retirement as the Sr. Vice President of Guaranty Bank and Trust in Longmont, Colorado. He worked in the commercial banking industry in Greeley and Longmont for over 30 years.

Greg graduated from Colorado State University with a BSBA with a major in Finance. He went on to obtain his Master of Agriculture from Texas A&M University, and graduated from the University of Colorado Graduate School of Banking.

Greg is an active volunteer in the Longmont community. Volunteer efforts include TLC Learning Center, Colorado Livestock Association, Special Olympics and Twin Peaks Rotary. He is also an avid fly fisherman.

Greg and his wife, Cathy, reside in Longmont.

Steve Laughlin, Vice Chair

Steve is known for helping retail and consumer product clients worldwide to transform their business models and consumer-facing activities. He is a leader in implementing complex business and technology solutions that drive improved performance. In January 2017, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) listed him among the “Top Industry Transformers.”

Steve leads IBM’s Consumer Industry across the company’s portfolio which includes retail, consumer products, wholesale distribution, and agri-business. His organization is responsible for defining IBM’s industry strategy, creating thought leadership, developing offerings and industry solutions, growing industry subject matter expertise, building delivery capabilities and capacity, advancing client relationships, and supporting business development teams.

He has 20+ years experience in the consulting and technology services industry serving clients and managing global and domestic practices. In the past he led key IBM consulting practices including the company’s global Retail and Consumer Products, global Smarter Commerce and the Growth Markets Application Innovation businesses.

Steve began his career in store management at Sears, Roebuck & Co. then entered consulting with Ernst & Young. He serves on the National Retail Federation and Retail Industry Leaders Association boards of directors and as an advisor to the World Retail Congress. Steve serves his local community as a member of the board of directors for UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital.

Steve Hess

Steve has been working in the health care IT field for over 27 years. Steve was named the Chief Information Officer of UCHealth in 2012. UCHealth is a Colorado-based health care system that includes 12 hospitals, including the Rocky Mountain region’s only academic medical center, University of Colorado Hospital, and over 150 clinics throughout Colorado, Wyoming and Western Nebraska.

Steve and his team have been focused on implementing consolidated and standardized IT systems across all of UCHealth’s hospitals and clinics, creating a foundation for innovation and transformational care. From 2009 to 2012, Steve was CIO of University of Colorado Hospital where he oversaw the implementation of the Epic EMR and Lawson ERP solutions there. Prior to that, Steve was CIO at Christiana Care Health System in Delaware for five years.

In addition to the EMR and ERP background, Steve has extensive experience with Health Information Exchange, Interactive Patient Care Systems, Patient Portals, Advanced Analytics, and Virtual Health.

John Stathis, MD

Dr. John Stathis specializes in invasive and interventional cardiology and has a long history of serving the medical needs of Longmont and the surrounding communities. Dr. Stathis is board certified in general cardiology, interventional cardiology and coronary stenting.

Dr. Stathis completed medical school at the University of Guadalajara in 1981, an internship at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (New York) in 1983, his residency at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (New York) in 1985, and his fellowship at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (New York) in 1987.

He is a member of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Stathis was previously a member of the Colorado Health Medical Group board of directors.

Dan Stroh

Dan is the past Chair of the Poudre Valley Health System board of directors. He is a third generation Larimer county native (born at Poudre Valley Hospital) and owns and operates Stroh & Co. Real Estate and Development in Loveland, Colorado.

Dan is the former president and board member of the Loveland Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he serves as a board member of the National Cutting Horse Association and is a member of the Loveland Rotary Club.

Dan and his wife, Debbie have 2 children and 4 grandchildren.

Karen Stuart

Karen Stuart is a former three-term Mayor of the City and County of Broomfield, Colorado, where she played a key role in the creation of the consolidated city and county in 2001. Stuart had leadership roles with the Denver Regional Council of Governments, the US36 Mayors and Commissioners Coalition, the Metro Mayors Caucus and the National League of Cities Transportation Advisory Committee. Stuart has served on numerous boards throughout her career, including the Front Range Community College Board of Directors, Adams County CASA Board of Directors and Broomfield Veterans’ Memorial Museum Board of Directors.

In 2015 Stuart received the Denver Regional Council of Governments’ Distinguished Service Award and in 2016 was recognized by the Denver Business Journal as a finalist for the Outstanding Women in Business in the Education and Non-Profits category. The Women in Transportation Seminars (WTS) chose Karen Stuart as the Colorado Transportation Woman of the Year in 2020.

Stuart holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and Economics from Marymount College, and a certificate from the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Stuart is currently the Executive Director of Smart Commute Metro North, a non-partisan, non-profit, transportation management organization, serving the north metro region working to promote mobility options that reduce congestion and improve air quality.

Ms. Stuart was appointed in 2017 to the Colorado Transportation Commission and to the High Performance Transportation Enterprise Board (HPTE) in 2019. She is the immediate past chair of the Transportation Commission, and current vice-chair of HPTE.

Senior Leadership: Broomfield Hospital and Longs Peak Hospital

President
Lonnie Cramer

Chief Medical Officer
Mark Schane, MD

Chief Nursing Officer
Noreen Bernard

Vice President, Operations
Stephanie Koenig

Director of Finance
Matt Yehl

Public notices

The University of Colorado Hospital Authority posts notices of the meetings that are open to the public on this website and in the main floor lobby corridor of the Leprino Building, 12401 East 17th Avenue, Aurora, Colorado 80045, at least 24 hours before such a board meeting.

Unless otherwise stated in the public notice, board meetings shall be held in the 10th Floor Board Conference Room, the Leprino Building, 12401 East 17th Avenue, Aurora, Colorado 80045.

Notices of Public Board Meetings

March 21, 2023

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