AHA announces chair-elect designate

The AHA Board of Trustees has selected as its chair-elect designate Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO of Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA. She will assume the AHA chairmanship in 2018. Agee is a member of the AHA’s Executive and Operations committees, and a past member of the AHA’s Health Care Systems Governing Council and Regional Policy Board 3. She also has served as an AHA commissioner on The Joint Commission board and on the boards of the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association, Coalition to Protect America’s Healthcare and Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. “America’s hospitals are leading a transformation in health care and, as chair, I look forward to helping my colleagues as they work to improve the health of their communities,” Agee said. For more information, see the AHA news release.