The AHA has elected six new members to its Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning Jan. 1. The incoming members are: Tina Freese Decker, president & CEO of Spectrum Health System, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Dennis Pullin, president and CEO of Virtua Health, Marlton, N.J.; Anthony Slonim, M.D., president and CEO of Renown Health, Reno, Nev.; Mike Abrams, president and CEO of the Ohio Hospital Association; Heidi Duncan, M.D., a family medicine physician at Billings (Mont.) Clinic; and John (Jack) Lynch III, president and CEO of Main Line Health, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Phyllis Cowling, president and CEO of United Regional Health Care System, Wichita Falls, Texas, also was named to a full term on the board after receiving a midterm appointment last year. 

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