Tuft & Associates, Inc.

Position Announcements

CompTIA
Noel Eberline to Director, Member Relations. Formerly Project Manager at TMA Resources, an association management software company.

Helping Hand Center
Mary Beth Hepp, MBA, to Executive Director. Ms. Hepp was Senior Director, Healthcare Client Management and Executive Director for the SmithBucklin Corporation.

Drug Information Association
F. Andrew Pepito, MBA, formerly Vice President of Finance and Operations at the US Grains Council, has been named DIA's Chief Financial Officer.

Oakland University
Dorothy Hawthorne-Burdine, RN, PhD, to Assistant Professor, Oakland University School of Nursing. Dr. Burdine’s scholarship focuses on diversity. She was previously on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.

American Academy of Dermatology
Debra Gist, MPH, FACME, to Director, Education.  Ms. Gist’s career included work as Director, Office of Continuing Medical Education, Duke University, School of Medicine.

CompTIA
Teresa O’Malley to Director, Member Education & Organizational Credentialing.  Prior to joining CompTIA, Ms. O’Malley was Director of Curriculum Development, the CCIM Institute, a 15,000-member affiliate of the National Association of Realtors.

Northeastern University, School of Nursing
Carole Kenner, DNS, RNC, FAAN, to Dean, Bouve School of Health Sciences.  Dr. Kenner previously served as Dean/Professor for the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, College of Nursing.

Sigma Theta Tau International, Honorary Society of Nursing
Eric Vermeulen, JD, to Director, Constituent Services.  Mr. Vermeulen was Director, Member Services & Regulatory Affairs, Indiana Health Care Association.

Wayne State University, College of Nursing
Nancy Trygar Artinian, PhD, RN-BC FAHA, to Associate Dean-Health Research Center.  Dr. Artinian was Interim Associate Dean for Research, Director for the Center for Health Research, Wayne State University.

American Medical Association
Susan F. Skochelak, MD, MPH, to Vice President, Medical Education.  Dr. Skochelak was Chief Academic Officer for the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health where she was responsible for admissions, curriculum and evaluation, rural and community programs and a large health library system.

Healthcare Financial Management Association
Marie A. Bass, MS, CAE, to Director, Education Resources.  Ms. Bass previously served as Executive Director, American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and as Director of Marketing, American Society of Clinical Pathologists.

Michigan State Medical Society
Julie L. Novak, MHSA, to Executive Director.  Ms. Novak served as Chief of Health Care Research, Director of Medical Economics & Health Care Delivery, and Director of Operations and Acting Executive Director of MSMS before being appointed Executive Director.

Spalding University, School of Nursing
Carolyn Keen Lewis, PhD, RN, CNAA, BC, to Chair, School of Nursing.  Dr. Lewis was Assistant Dean, Nursing Division, Bluegrass Community and Technical College, Lexington, Kentucky.

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Jennifer Wolff Jones to Director, Unity and Specialty Society Services, where she will manage services available to orthopaedic specialty societies. 

National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators
Lance Hoxie to Chief Executive Officer.  Mr. Hoxie previously served as Director, Ambulatory Care Accreditation Services for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the American Board for Certification in Orthotics and Prosthetics.