Tyler Bennett (17MHA)

is now director of provider contracting with Elevance Health based in Indianapolis, Indiana, covering network strategy for Indiana, Virginia, and California.

Tyler Ust (20MHA)

has been named one of “90 critical access hospital CEO’s to know” for 2024 by Becker’s Health Review. This annual list recognizes leaders who excel in expanding services, recruiting and retaining top providers and building key partnerships to ensure their hospitals remain vital to their communities. Ust is CEO of Sanford Health Thief River Falls in Minnesota.

Don Michaels

retired in May 2024 after being on the faculty of Harvard School of Public Health for 18 years. Michaels previously retired from PwC - partner in health care practice and is located in Biddeford, Maine.

Georgia Denman (94MHA)

published “The Pink Tree Collective,” a short story introducing a future series of novels about a group of physicians and their associates improving the world one secret charitable deed at a time. Denman has degrees in political science and hospital and health administration, with an emphasis on global healthcare. She is an advocate for patients and healthcare providers drawing on decades of experiences and interests and is based in Olympia, Washington.

Pamela Wiltfang (13MPH)

was named one of the Corridor Business Journal’s 2024 Forty Under 40 which recognizes leaders for having significant impact in their business and community early in their careers. Wiltfang is medical science liaison, rare disease at Amgen in Iowa City, Iowa.

Mark Willis (12MHA)

was named one of the Corridor Business Journal’s 2024 Forty Under 40 which recognizes leaders for having significant impact in their business and community early in their careers. Willis is market vice president of operations at UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Larissa Luckel (13MHA, 13MPH)

was named one of the Corridor Business Journal’s 2024 Forty Under 40 which recognizes leaders for having significant impact in their business and community early in their careers. Luckel is director of revenue cycle services at Revology in Iowa City, Iowa.

Jennifer Miller (10MHA, 08MPH)

is chief administrative officer of University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown in Iowa City, Iowa.

Bailey Rickels (21MPH)

is adult injury prevention coordinator at University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) in Iowa City, Iowa. Rickels is also co-director of a federal Administration for Community Living fall prevention grant awarded to UIHC in 2024. The grant will provide virtual fall prevention programs to older adults, adults with disabilities, and Spanish-speaking adults in Iowa, and build capacity and infrastructure to promote sustainability.

Isabella De Soriano (17MPH)

is vice president of the board of directors at OutCare Health in Chicago, Illinois. OutCare Health provides comprehensive resources for LGBTQ+ health equity including locating affirming healthcare providers, mentorship, health equity training, community building, support groups, care navigation, and consulting services.

Kent Lehr (09MHA)

has been named CEO of Iowa Radiology in Des Moines, Iowa.

Adaeze Enekwechi (07PhD)

is named CEO of Cayaba Care, a maternal care company reaching under-served and high-risk populations, bridging the maternal health equity gap through personalized wraparound services during pregnancy and several months postpartum, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Rachel Trevizo (10MHA)

is chief operating officer at Revology in Iowa City, Iowa.

Nick Howald (15MHA)

is chief executive officer of TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee where he oversees operations at the 136-bed hospital and an eleven-bed freestanding emergency room.

Tala Al-Rousan (15MPH)

has been selected by the Arab American Businesses and Professional Association as one of the 10 most inspiring and influential women in the nation. Al-Rousan, an assistant professor at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health at the University of California San Diego, will be honored at an event in March 2024.

Lena Hann (08MPH)

is associate professor of public health at Augustana College and affiliated faculty in Scandinavian Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar for the 2024-2025 academic year. She is currently on sabbatical as a guest researcher at Uppsala University's Centre for Gender Research in Sweden, where she has been studying the public health impact of Swedish abortion narratives in graphic novels. Her Fulbright Scholar project, in collaboration with Uppsala University Hospital and the Karolinska Institute's World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in the Department of Women and Children's Health, will investigate Sweden's historic and modern approaches to medication abortion within a reproductive justice framework and use findings to collaborate with U.S. healthcare providers to increase clinician training and patient access to medication abortion. She will also teach a PhD course Reproductive Justice in Global Contexts.

Mike Lightbody (15MPH)

is chief executive officer of Creative Living, a nonprofit organization that provides adapted housing and support services for people with physical disabilities in Columbus, Ohio.

Kimberly Kim (11MPH)

is prevention specialist at Bethany for Children and Families in Moline, Illinois.

Elly Steffen (01MPH, 01MHA)

is executive director of Surgery Center Cedar Rapids in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Brooke Zibell (21BS)

is water quality specialist II for the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in La Conner, Washington.