2025-2026 Midwest Region Board of Directors

President
Mary Boylan, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
St. Luke's Regional Heart & Vascular Center

Chair
Joseph Haas
SVP of Private Wealth
Associated Bank
Milwaukee, WI

Members

Heather Baker, EdD
Principal
Dorothy Simon Elementary School/Winnebago CUSD #323
Rockton, IL

Tasha Blackmon
President & CEO
Cherry Health
Grand Rapids, MI

Kim Bors
Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
Dover Corporation
Downers Grove, IL

Mercedes Carnethon, PhD
Vice Chair
Department of Preventive Medicine and
Mary Harris Thompson Professor of Medicine,
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

Gyasi Chisley
Managing Director, Head of Corporate Healthcare
PNC Bank
Chicago, Illinois

Monte Curnutt
Vice President, Corporate Development
Roche Diagnostics
Fishers, Indiana

Eileen Robertson Hamra
CEO
Fit Together, LLC
St. Louis, Missouri

Karen Harbin
President & CEO
Commonwealth Credit Union
Frankfort, Kentucky

Delores Hargrove-Young
Vice Chairwoman
d.e. Foxx & Associates, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH

Linda Imonti
Retired Managing Partner
KMPG LLP
Chicago, IL

Joshua J. Joseph, MD, MPH, FAHA
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Columbus, OH

Cathy O'Malley Kearney
Executive Vice President, Head of Institutional Services
KeyBank
Cleveland, Ohio

Devray Kirkland
Vice President, Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer
Cardinal Health
Columbus, OH

Brett Kissela, MD, MS
Executive Vice-Dean
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Chief of Research Services
UC Health
Cincinnati, OH

Sharon Langshur
Research Project Coordinator
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL

Karen Larimer, PhD, ACNP-BC, FAHA, FPCNA
Director Clinical and Research Operations
Cardiosense
Chicago, Illinois

Bradley S. Marino, MD, MPP, MSCE, MBA
Chair
Children’s Institute Department of Heart, Vascular & Thoracic
Chair
Division of Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine
Executive Co-Director
Pediatric & Adult Congenital Heart Center, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Cleveland, OH

Keith Miller, MD, PhD, FACC
Cardiologist
Bryan Health
Lincoln, NE

John Mongelluzzo
Managing Partner
Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
Cincinnati, OH

Howard O’Brien
Associate
Howard & O’Brien Executive Search
Cleveland, OH

Karen Rieck
Vice President, Human Resources
Farm Bureau Financial Services West
Des Moines, IL

Jorge F. Saucedo, MD, MBA
Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Professor of Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Director of the Heart & Vascular Service Lines
Froedtert Health System
Milwaukee, WI

Lee Shapiro, JD
Managing Partner
7wire Ventures
Chicago, IL

John Walsh, DSc, MBA, FACHE
CEO, UofL Health,
Louisville Inc., Jewish Hospital
Louisville, KY