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2021 Baldrige Board of Examiners
Below is the list of the current members of the Baldrige Board of Examiners. The Baldrige Program wishes to thank the hundreds of volunteers who have previously served as Baldrige Examiners. These industry experts make an invaluable contribution to organizational improvement, the Baldrige Program, and the nation.
Baldrige Examiners
| State | Board Position | Name | Organization Sort descending |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD | Senior | Pionati, Pellegrino | 4P's Advisor's LLC |
| CA | Master Examiner | Niswonger, Jennifer | Adventist Health and Rideout |
| CA | Examiner | Duyst, Jennifer | Adventist Health Medical Center-Hanford |
| CA | Examiner | Corson, Karen | Adventist Health Rideout |
| MD | Examiner | Grange, George | Adventist Healthcare |
| MD | Senior | Miller, Emily | Adventist HealthCare |
| GA | Master Examiner | Hatch, Melanie | Albany State University |
| IL | Examiner | Chen, Yuesha | AMITA Health |
| OH | Master Examiner | Belter, Michael | Appalachian Power company |
| VA | Examiner | Humphrey, Kimberlee | Association for Manufacturing Excellence |
| TX | Examiner | Padula, Emily | Austin Healthcare Innovation |
| CO | Examiner | Walker, Jim | Baldrige Assistance Services |
| TX | Master Examiner | Kendall, Kay | BaldrigeCoach, Inc. |
| TX | Master Examiner | Bodinson, Glenn | BaldrigeCoach, Inc. |
| TX | Examiner | Schnitzer, Mark | Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance |
| FL | Examiner | Swanson, Catherine | Best Practice Cities, LLC |
| WI | Master Examiner | Garcia, Dawn | BNI US CORE |
| MI | Master Examiner | Snyder, Robert | Bo Snyder Consulting, Inc. |
| TN | Examiner | McVey, Lola | Bristol Tennessee Essential Services |
| NJ | Senior | Hall, Brenda | C-Suite Healthcare Advisors |
| CA | Examiner | Cunningham, Lindsey | California Council for Excellence (CCE) |
| IL | Senior | Sellett, Julianna | Carle Health |
| PA | Master Examiner | Ettinger, Joel | Category One, Inc. |
| IL | Senior | Marston, Andrew | Caterpillar - Innovation & Technology Development Division |
| NC | Master Examiner | Craver, Catherine | Catherine Craver Consulting |
| MD | Master Examiner | Burwell, LaWanda | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Center for Clinical Standards & Quality |
| MS | Examiner | Rayford, Edith | Central Mississippi Health Services, Inc. |
| NC | Master Examiner | Janoski, Cheryl | Cheryl J. Janoski |
| TX | Senior | Fischer, Megan | CHI St Luke's Texas Division |
| TX | Examiner | Ransom, Eric | CHI St. Luke's Health |
| VA | Examiner | Spengler, James | City of Alexandria Virginia |
| CO | Senior | Runyan, Therese | City of Fort Collins |
| OH | Examiner | Mummadi, Srinivas | Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
| CO | Examiner | Sullivan, Daniel | Colorado Department of Public Health |
| NE | Examiner | Reiners, Jonathan | Community Hospital |
| KY | Examiner | Maxik, Kenneth | CompleteRx, Ltd. |
| NM | Master Examiner | Baca, Maureen | Computing Center Inc. of Albuquerque |
| CO | Master Examiner | Katzenberg, Beth | Consultant: Health Care Quality & Compliance Integrity |
| TX | Examiner | Kydd, Shernette | Cook Children's Healthcare System |
| MN | Master Examiner | Grizzell, Paul | Core Values Partners, Inc. |
| MO | Master Examiner | Rogers, Scott | CoxHealth |
| AR | Master Examiner | Craddock, William | Craddock & Associates, Inc. |
| AZ | Senior | Casano, Jayleen | Creighton University Medical Center-Bergan Mercy |
| NY | Master Examiner | Yanovsky, Marlene | Customer Focused Solutions, Inc. |
| TX | Master Examiner | Huynh, Bao | Dallas College - Richland Campus |
| TX | Examiner | Miff, Jennifer | Dallas Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation |
| VA | Examiner | Law, Bryan | Department of State |
| VA | Senior | Pasakarnis, Thomas | Department of Veterans Affairs |
| CA | Master Examiner | Akers, Diane | Diane Akers Consulting |
| CO | Senior | Harcek, Grace | Donor Alliance |
| OH | Senior | Weber, Suzanne | Eaton Corporation |
| FL | Senior | Adelman, Kimberly | ECG Management Consultants |
| CO | Senior | Hilts, Peter | El Paso County Colorado School District 49 |
| CA | Examiner | Watkins, Daryl | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - College of Business |
| GA | Examiner | Findeiss, Laura | Emory University School of Medicine |
| FL | Examiner | Jadhav, Yashodeep | Envision Healthcare |
| FL | Examiner | Okano, Ikuko | Florida Health Care Assocaiton |
| MD | Examiner | Blakely, Cherron | Food and Drug Administration/Center for Devices and Radiological Health/Office of Product Evaluation & Quality |
| IA | Examiner | Dane, Michele | Genesis Health System |
| GA | Master Examiner | Vinyard, John | Genitect |
| IN | Senior | Drake, Michael | Good Samaritan Hospital |
| SC | Master Examiner | Rainer, Robert | Greenville Pathology Associates |
| GA | Senior | Waldorf, Douglas | Guidehouse |
| CA | Examiner | Kattan, Azar | Harbor-UCLA Medical Center |
| MA | Examiner | Rawson, James | Harvard Medical Faculty Practice/Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Center |
| HI | Master Examiner | Molenda, John | HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union |
| NV | Master Examiner | Oot-Giromini, Barbara | HCA Far West Division |
| FL | Senior | Rieder, Renee | HCA North Florida Division |
| IL | Senior | Humrickhouse, Robert | Healthcare Consulting Services |
| TX | Examiner | Whitehead, Kristin | HealthLinx |
| FL | Master Examiner | Campbell, Robert | HealthTrust |
| IN | Examiner | Edwards, Emily | Hendricks Regional Health |
| PH | Examiner | Calingo, Luis María | Holy Angel University |
| WA | Examiner | Nidd, Christine | Hospice of the Northwest |
| MD | Examiner | Valentine, Amanda | Howard University Hospital |
| VA | Senior | Cummins, Michael | Impact Engineering, Inc. |
| IL | Senior | Goldman, Lynn | Independent Consultant |
| NC | Master Examiner | Christiansen, Richard | Independent Consultant |
| MD | Examiner | Taylor, April | Johns Hopkins Hospital |
| NC | Master Examiner | Jokovich, Nancy | Jokovich Consulting |
| IN | Master Examiner | Dye, Tammy | Jordan Johnson, Inc |
| TX | Master Examiner | Johnson, Janet | Jordan Johnson, Inc. |
| IN | Senior | Lozier, Travis | Jordan Johnson, Inc. |
| NJ | Senior | Baehser, Mark | Judson Health- Gouverneur health |
| WI | Master Examiner | Kirkland, Lori | Kirkland-Jones |
| MT | Master Examiner | Lapekas, Patti | Lapekas & Associates |
| FL | Examiner | Martinez, Lisa | Lee Health |
| VA | Examiner | Satterlee, Anita | Liberty University |
| TX | Senior | Onken, Lynn | LifeGift |
| MO | Examiner | Van Dusen, Lee | Logan University |
| SC | Examiner | Hunter, Christine | Lowcountry Women's Specialists |
| IL | Examiner | Ozan Rafferty, Margaret | Loyola University Chicago |
| TX | Examiner | Hsia, Hsiao | LSS Consultant |
| Examiner | Gonzalez, Lourdes | Lulu Process Design Group | |
| MA | Master Examiner | Kessler, Marsha | M Kessler Group |
| IA | Examiner | Adelmund, Eric | Mary Greeley Medical Center |
| IA | Senior | Kiel Rosser, Karen | Mary Greeley Medical Center |
| IA | Examiner | Smith, Ronald | Mary Greeley Medical Center |
| VA | Master Examiner | Fletcher, Eric | Mary Washington Healthcare |
| MD | Examiner | Holman, Maelondy | Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene |
| CA | Master Examiner | Chan, Marsha | MCC Health Care Consulting |
| SC | Examiner | Wall, Jason | Medical University of South Carolina |
| MI | Master Examiner | Markley, Geri | Michigan Performance Excellence |
| MI | Senior | Lawver, Adam | Michigan State University |
| MO | Examiner | Brenner, Lauren | Mid-America Transplant |
| MO | Senior | Martin, Linda | Mid-America Transplant |
| IN | Examiner | Miller, Eric | Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) |
| WI | Master Examiner | LaBonte, Peter | Milwaukee County |
| SC | Examiner | Ibe, James | Morris College |
| VA | Master Examiner | Erath, Mark | Murphy Deming College of Health Science Mary Baldwin University |
| SC | Examiner | Robinson, Cory | MUSC Health |
| SC | Examiner | Louder, David | MUSC Health |
| MD | Examiner | Somerville, Nancy | N C Somerville Consulting |
| VA | Master Examiner | Malloy, Eric | National Cemetery Administration |
| MD | Examiner | Davis, David | National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspection |
| OH | Master Examiner | Nirody, Suresh | Naught Foundation Inc. |
| IN | Master Examiner | Kimbrough, Larry | Navistar Inc. |
| NC | Master Examiner | Grayson, Kevin | NC State University - IES |
| GA | Examiner | Stewart, Glenda | Next Step Care |
| IL | Master Examiner | Mony, Premalatha | Northshore University Healthsystem |
| MI | Master Examiner | Stehouwer, Kristin | Northwood University |
| NY | Examiner | Gordon, Adam | NYC Health + Hospitals / Elmhurst |
| OH | Master Examiner | Ceselski, Sarah | Ohio State University Medical Center |
| OH | Master Examiner | McBride, Debra | Ohio University Global Health Initiative |
| MT | Senior | Salazar, Lara | One Health |
| AR | Examiner | Givens, Joe | Ouachita County Medical Center |
| OH | Examiner | Renz, Julianne | Pain Management Group |
| FL | Examiner | Bobst Miklosikova, Zuzana | Pasco County, Board of County Commissioners |
| NC | Senior | Deaton, Darrell | Patient Centered Innovation, Inc. |
| OK | Examiner | Cunningham, Erin | Paycom |
| MA | Master Examiner | Kinney, Laura | Performance Excellence Mentor |
| OR | Master Examiner | Post, Theron | Performance Excellence Northwest (PENW) |
| IN | Master Examiner | Schoch, Kurt | Performance Improvement Consulting, LLC |
| PA | Senior | Miller, Brian | Pine-Richland School District |
| NM | Examiner | Cartwright, Joshua | Presbyterian Healthcare Services |
| FL | Examiner | Brown, Cheryl | Publix Employees Federal Credit Union |
| TX | Master Examiner | McGuire, Cortis | Quality Texas Foundation |
| FL | Master Examiner | Serrano, Doug | Quiet Excellence |
| OH | Master Examiner | Haynes, Denise | Quiet Excellence |
| CA | Master Examiner | Mohagen, Bruce | Retired |
| PA | Examiner | Conklin, Sheila | Retired |
| NJ | Examiner | Ghali, Anwar | Richard Hall Community Mental Health Center |
| TX | Master Examiner | Vera, Fonda | Richland College |
| MN | Master Examiner | Jenson, Kathleen | RK Jenson Assoc |
| PA | Examiner | Gigliotti, Raffaele | Rutgers University |
| NJ | Examiner | Cirne-Neves, Ceu | Saint Barnabas Medical Center |
| CA | Examiner | Do, Tram | San Diego County |
| CO | Examiner | Fletcher, Louis | School District 49 |
| OH | Master Examiner | Lewis, Alice | Self-Employed |
| MD | Master Examiner | Bonk, Stephen | SFB PM Consulting |
| MD | Senior | Oxenford, Michael | Shady Grove Medical Center |
| CA | Examiner | Osten, Jyoti | Sharp HealthCare |
| CA | Master Examiner | Shields, Denise | Shields Resource Group |
| NV | Examiner | King, James | Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) |
| OH | Master Examiner | Mackert, Elayne Casey | Six Disciplines Consulting Services |
| WI | Master Examiner | Snyder, Edward | Snyder Consulting & Associates |
| CO | Master Examiner | Wulff, Sonja | Sonja Wulff Consulting |
| MI | Senior | Powell, Lisa | Sparrow Hospital |
| id | Master Examiner | Deats, Kevin | SPIRE Quality Consulting |
| CA | Examiner | Vetteth, Yohan | Stanford Health Care |
| CA | Master Examiner | Carrothers, Kathleen | Stanford Health Care - ValleyCare |
| WI | Master Examiner | Sternke, JoAnn | Studer Group / Studer Education |
| AR | Examiner | Allen, Jeffrey | Summit Community Care / Anthem |
| HI | Master Examiner | Hamamura, Glenn | Systems Excellence, LLC |
| TN | Master Examiner | Fields Parsons, Tamera | Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence |
| MN | Examiner | Connor, Carla | The Chicago School of Professional Psychology |
| CA | Senior | Iwane, David | The Chicago School of Professional Psychology |
| IN | Examiner | West, Thomas | The Green Dot Consulting Group |
| MD | Examiner | Moore, Brett | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| SC | Examiner | Donohue, Doreen | The Joint Commission |
| OH | Senior | Hoffman, Margot | The Partnership for Excellence |
| FL | Examiner | McClung, Sandra | The School District of Lee County |
| AL | Senior | Gholston, Sampson | The University of Alabama in Huntsville |
| MD | Examiner | Hammond, Trudy | TidalHealth |
| DE | Examiner | Sheets, Debra | TidalHealth |
| MD | Examiner | Fiddler, Kathryn | TidalHealth |
| PA | Examiner | Plowfield, Lisa | Towson University |
| OK | Senior | Strobel, Tammie | Tri County Tech |
| OK | Senior | Godfrey, Jason | Tri County Tech Center |
| MI | Examiner | Pomaville, Rena | Tsunagari Services, Inc. |
| MD | Master Examiner | Kenney, Marcia | Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center |
| CO | Examiner | Bradley, Margaret | UCHealth (formerly PVHS) |
| NC | Master Examiner | Beach, Trent | UNC Health |
| MS | Examiner | Prasad, Amit | United HealthCare |
| NJ | Senior | Quintavalla, Steven | United States Golf Association |
| MO | Senior | Webb, Steffani | University of Kansas Medical Center |
| KS | Master Examiner | Field, Thomas | University of Kansas Medical Center |
| MD | Examiner | Killian, Dennis | University of Maryland Eastern Shore School of Pharmacy |
| PA | Examiner | Johnston, Celia | University of Pennsylvania Health System |
| FL | Master Examiner | Corace, Mary | University of South Florida |
| TN | Senior | Holt, Lila | University of Tennessee |
| TX | Master Examiner | Griffith, Patrice | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| IA | Senior | Wood, Denise | Urbandale Community School District |
| GA | Senior | Taylor, Phyllis | US Army Garrison Fort Stewart |
| NC | Master Examiner | Ballard, Marcie | US Army Special Operations Command |
| TX | Master Examiner | Holroyd, Ashley | UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| CO | Master Examiner | McCorvey, James | VA National Office of Community Care |
| KS | Senior | Boylan, Michelle | VA VISN 15 |
| MN | Master Examiner | Floss, Gary | Veritas Institute, University of St. Thomas |
| AR | Examiner | Parks, Kelvin | Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks |
| FL | Senior | Wilhoit-Groves, Kristine | VHA Office of Quality |
| VA | Master Examiner | Garfield, Janice | Walden University |
| CA | Master Examiner | Hawley, Tamela | WASC Senior College and University Commission |
| FL | Examiner | Wade, Herbert | Webber International University |
| GA | Master Examiner | Ruhl, Rebecca | WellStar Health System |
| GA | Examiner | Kueven, John | Wellstar Health System |
| GA | Senior | Dune-Chari, Victoria | Wellstar Kennestone Hospital |
| MI | Master Examiner | Curtis, Patricia | Western Michigan University Homer Stryker, M.D. School of Medicine |
| NM | Master Examiner | Gilbert, Kathie | Western New Mexico University |
| WI | Master Examiner | Menzer, Elizabeth | Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence |
| AZ | Examiner | Aders, Deborah | Yuma Regional Medical Center |
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