has been promoted to CEO
of the Million Dollar Round
Table, based in Park Ridge,
Ill. Stahr joined MDRT in
Stahr was the 2009 recipient of
the Association Forum’s John C. Thiel
Distinguished Service Award, which is
presented to one association profes-
sional and one supplier partner every
year for exceptional, long-term volunteer
service to the Association Forum, primar-
ily through committee service or similar
contributions.
The Chicago-based
Emergency Nurses
Association has named
Susan Hohenhaus, MA,
RN, CEN, FAEN, as its new
executive director. Hohenhaus, who has
more than 30 years of experience as an
emergency nurse, previously was direc-
tor of ENA’s Institute for Quality Safety
and Injury Prevention, and president of
her own health care consulting company,
Hohenhaus & Associates Inc.
Elizabeth M. Lucas,
CAE, MBA, has joined
Soroptimist International
of the Americas as its new
executive director, replac-
ing longtime leader Leigh Wintz, FASAE,
CAE, who has assumed a full-time posi-
tion as principal consultant with Tecker
International LLC. Based in Philadelphia,
Soroptimist is an international volunteer
organization for business and profes-
sional women who work to improve the
lives of women and girls in communi-
ties around the world. Lucas joins the
organization after 15 years with the
American Massage Therapy Association in
Evanston, Ill., where she began as director of marketing and communications and
served for the past nine years as executive
director.
The San
Francisco
Travel
Association
has hired
John Reyes,
MBA, CMP, as executive vice president
and chief customer officer, and promoted
Tom Kiely to executive vice president of
tourism.
Reyes most recently was CEO of the
Monterey County Convention & Visitors
Bureau in Monterey, Calif. He will oversee
all activities of SF Travel’s convention
division, including citywide group business optimization and long-range sales
and marketing of San Francisco’s convention facilities, including Moscone Center.
Kiely, meanwhile, joined SF Travel in
September 2010 as vice president of tourism. In his new role, he will grow existing
business with business-to-business customers and develop new business with
travel producers, including tour operators
and travel agencies.
Reyes Kiely
The Greater
Phoenix
Convention
& Visitors
Bureau in
Phoenix,
Ariz., has made two additions to its sales
staff. As director of national accounts,
Regina Rink will spearhead the CVB’s
resort sales efforts in the Washington,
D.C., market. As national sales manager,
meanwhile, Julie Nicolazzi will focus on
hotel and resort sales in the Midwest
market. Rink, a Chicago native, previously
worked as director of sales for Associated
Luxury Hotels International. Nicolazzi
joins the CVB from meetings firm
Conference Direct, where she was a global
account executive.
Rink Nicolazzi
Len Valka
and Ted
Bowen have
joined the
sales team
at Houston’s
George R. Brown Convention Center.
Valka joins the convention center team
with 16 years of experience in the hotel
industry and will handle all specialty markets. Bowen, who previously worked in
the convention center’s corporate affairs
and marketing office, will take over all
Texas accounts.
Valka Bowen
News and Awards
The Association Forum congratulates two
of its members, who have been named
to Modern Healthcare magazine’s 2011 list
of the “100 Most Influential People in
Healthcare.” Thomas C. Dolan, Ph.D.,
FACHE, CAE, president and CEO of
the American College of Healthcare
Executives, was ranked No. 72 on the list
while H. Stephen Lieber, CAE, president
and CEO of the Healthcare Information
and Management Systems Society and
immediate past chair of the Association
Forum, was ranked No. 91.
