DR. JULIA MIKELL
New job title: Director of quality performance
Company: St. Joseph’s/Candler
Duties: Mikell is responsible for the continuing development and effectiveness of process reliability, quality improvement teams, quality metrics and analytics, patient safety and clinical transformation. She will also provide education and consultation on system-based process redesign and measurement for medical staff, management, co-workers, senior leadership and the board of trustees as part of the quality improvement process.
Her responsibilities will also include providing a planned, systematic, organization-wide approach to identifying, designing, measuring, prioritizing and monitoring all quality management activities.
Related Experience: Mikell has been on the SJ/C medical staff since 1980 and has served in many leadership roles, including candler hospital board of trustees member, foundations board member, credentials committee chair, and candler hospital chief of staff.
Education: Mikell has a doctorate of medicine from the Medical College of Georgia and has completed an internal medicine Internship at the Medical University of South Carolina and a neurology residency at the Mayo Clinic.
LIZ LUBRANI
New job title: Outreach coordinator
Company: UGA/Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens
Duties: Lubrani will be responsible for developing outreach programs, public relations, social media and children’s education programs.
Related Experience: She served as events planner for Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens for the past two years developing special fundraising events, promoting the gardens and speaking to civic groups and garden clubs. She has more than ten years’ experience working in the non-profit field.
Education: Lubrani earned a bachelor of humanities from Penn State.
ANN HEINY
New job title: Director of first year experience
Company: Armstrong Atlantic State University
Duties: Heiny is responsible for the strategy and execution of cultivating positive relationships for first-year students at Armstrong.
Related Experience: Heiny served as department chair of Foundations of Success and interim dean at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana.
Education: She earned a B.S. degree in psychology from Manchester College and a M.S. in marriage and family therapy from Indiana State University.
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The Global Women’s Summit presented Melody Rodríguez, director of the Hispanic Outreach and Leadership at Armstrong (HOLA) program and the College Access Mentoring Information and Outreach (CAMINO) program at Armstrong Atlantic State University, with a Women Who Rock Award. Rodríguez received the award at the Global Women’s Summit conference in Savannah on March 8.
STC honors Matthew Tuttle
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GM honors Anderson with ‘Lifetime Achievement’
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