Our Board
Contact any of our Board Members by emailing
info@tetonhospital.org. Correspondence sent to the Trustees regards public matters and is part
of the public record.
In 2017, the Board of Trustees will meet on the following dates at 4:00
pm (unless otherwise noted):
- Thursday, January 26
- Tuesday, February 28
- Thursday, March 16
- Thursday, April 27
- Tuesday, May 30
- Thursday, June 22
- Thursday, July 20
- Thursday, August 24
- Friday, September 29
- Thursday, October 26
- Friday, December 1
If you have any questions please call Mary Katherine King, Executive Assistant at
307.739.7404
Board Members
Michael Tennican, Chair
Michael Tennican is a management and economic consultant. He provides counsel
and expert witness testimony on strategic and financial issues for major
US and international companies, particularly in the energy sector. He
began his professional career as a professor of finance at the Harvard
Business School, then moved on to become a senior vice president and a
director of two management and economic consulting firms that are now
both subsidiaries of the Marsh & McLennan Companies. He also has long
been involved with startup companies, most recently a medical research
and development company, Hyprotek, Inc., focused on the prevention of
infectious diseases. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from Stanford
and MBA and Doctoral degrees from Harvard. His wife, Jennifer, is a documentary
filmmaker. Her films include
The Stagecoach Bar: An American Crossroads and
Far Afield: A Conservation Love Story, among others.
Appointed August 2009, Initially Elected November 2010 - Current Term Ends
November 2018
Barbara Herz, Vice Chair
Barbara Herz is an economist and holds a PhD from Yale and a BA from Wellesley.
She has focused her professional life mainly on education and health.
She worked nearly twenty years at the World Bank, where she started the
Bank's Women in Development Division, launching an initiative on girls'
education and co-founding the international Safe Motherhood Initiative.
She then headed the Bank's work on education and health in Bangladesh,
Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. She served as a Senior Adviser to Secretary of
the Treasury Lawrence Summers and is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations. She is married to Chuck Herz. They have two daughters, one
who lives with her husband and daughters in Moose and one who is a pediatrician
in California.
Initially Elected November 2006 – Current Term Ends November 2018
C. Scott Gibson, Treasurer
Scott Gibson is actively involved in the high technology industry, and
through his long time participation on the boards of many non-profits,
large and small, over the last 35 years as well. From January 1983 through
February 1992, Mr. Gibson co-founded and served as President and Co-CEO
of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., a computer systems company which grew
from start-up to 2500 employees. Before co-founding Sequent, Mr. Gibson
served as General Manager, Memory Components Operation, at Intel Corporation.
Since March 1992, Mr. Gibson has been a full time professional director
to high technology companies. Mr. Gibson serves on the boards of several
other companies and non-profit organizations, including Radisys Corporation,
where he is Chair of the Board, Triquint Semiconductor, Inc., Pixelworks,
Inc., and NW Natural. He served nearly 10 years on the Oregon Health and
Sciences University Governing Board, and serves on the board of the Community
Foundation of Jackson Hole. Mr. Gibson holds a B.S.E.E. and a M.B.A. from
the University of Illinois.
Appointed December 2011, Initially Elected 2012 – Current Term Ends
November 2020
Elizabeth Masek, Secretary
With an undergraduate degree is in journalism from the University of Utah,
Liz Masek spent her early years in the public relations field, with a
focus on corporate philanthropic concerns. Her masters' degree is
in Health Advocacy from Sarah Lawrence College, for which she completed
a practicum at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Liz has served
on the boards of the St. John's Hospital Foundation and Teton Wellness
Institute, and as a Lay Chaplain at St. John's Medical Center. She
serves St. John's Episcopal Church in its Vestry and Stewardship and
Education committees.
Appointed July 2014, Initially Elected 2014 – Current Term Ends November 2018
Joe Albright
Joe Albright and his wife Marcia Kunstel operate the Flat Creek Ranch,
an historic wilderness dude ranch in Jackson Hole, WY. He is a retired
newspaper correspondent and author. During the 1960s-1990s, he worked
as a news correspondent in Washington and in more than 40 foreign countries
for Newsday and the Cox Newspapers. Joe is a member of the advisory board
of the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming. He is past
president of the board of the Rotary Foundation of Jackson Hole and past
vice chair of the Wyoming Council for the Humanities, the Teton County
Library Board and the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum. Joe
and his wife co-authored "Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's
Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy" (Times Books/Random House, 1997) and
"Their Promised Land: Arab and Jew in History's Cauldron - One
Valley in the Jerusalem Hills" (Crown Books/Random House, 1990).
Appointed August 2009, Elected November 2010 – Current Term Ends
November 2018
Bruce Hayse, MD
One of the longest-serving, and better-known family practitioners in the
valley, Dr. Bruce Hayse was born in Oregon. Always an avid outdoorsman,
Bruce worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho and earned a Master's
degree in plant ecology from the University of Wisconsin before graduating
from the University of Oregon medical school. Before moving to Jackson
in 1983 with his wife and two daughters, Bruce co-founded the environmental
group Earth First! He remains a conservation activist today, serving on
the boards of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Western Wetlands
Project and Wyoming Wilderness Association. His family practice office
is on Broadway in downtown Jackson. Bruce was named "Citizen of the
Year" in 1992 by the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce.
Elected November 2008 – Current Term Ends November 2020
Cynthia Hogan
Ms. Hogan has a wealth of experience in the health care industry, both
as a professional and as a patient advocate assisting family through serious
medical conditions. She has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical
industry, having worked for Novartis for the last 20 years. Among other
things, she established a Patient Services Center providing reimbursement
support and disease education to patients with specialty diseases. She
was the co-Chair of a Novartis executive women’s organization, leading
its growth from 50 to over 1,000 members. Ms. Hogan also helped with strategic
planning to prepare the corporation for changes brought on by the Affordable
Care Act. Ms. Hogan has served on a variety of nonprofit boards including
New Jersey Hospice.
Appointed April 2015 – CurrentTerm Ends November 2020