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 2019, the Board of Trustees will meet on the following dates, with public sessions at 4:00 pm (unless otherwise noted):

Monday, September 16 @ Spring Creek Resort
- 11 am Executive Session, Boardroom
- 1 pm–5 pm Open Session on Governance Topics, Sagebrush West Ballroom
Tuesday, October 1
Tuesday, October 29
Thursday, November 21

in 2020:

Thursday, January 30
Monday, February 24
Thursday, March 26
Tuesday, May 26
Monday, June 29
Thursday, July 16 – 12pm
Thursday, August 27
Tuesday, September 29
Tuesday, October 27
Tuesday, December 1

If you have any questions, please call Shannon Stec, Executive Assistant at 307.739.7502

Board Members

Cynthia Hogan, Chair

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 to provide 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 – Current Term Ends November 2020

Elizabeth Masek, Vice Chair

With an undergraduate degree 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 master’s 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 is a spiritual care volunteer 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 December 31, 2019

Michael Tennican, Treasurer

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 2022

Linda Aurelio, Secretary

Linda earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in hospital administration at The George Washington University. Her medical career spanned 30 years before her retirement in 2003. She served as chief of the Department of Ultrasound at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C., while participating in early research on AIDS, prostate cancer, and infertility. The 500-bed hospital provided an excellent opportunity to teach residents and to advance her studies. Upon completing her MHA, she founded Sonographic Services Inc (SSI). For the next 18 years, SSI provided temporary medical staffing to hospitals and offices around the country. By combining her medical expertise and business background, she was able to develop a successful company providing a much-needed service to the medical community.

Linda has been a Jackson resident since 2003. She has been an active member of the St. John's Hospital Foundation since 2015, most recently serving as vice chair. She also serves as a council member to the Jackson Hole Land Trust. Initially Elected November 2018 – Current Term Ends November 2022

C. Scott Gibson

Scott Gibson is actively involved in the high technology industry, and has served on the boards of many non-profits, large and small, over the last 35 years as well. From 1983 through 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 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 BSEE and a MBA from the University of Illinois. Appointed December 2011, Initially Elected 2012 – Current Term Ends November 2020

Joe Albright

Joe Albright and his wife Marcia Kunstel operate the Flat Creek Ranch, an historic wilderness dude ranch in Jackson Hole, WY. Joe 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 2022

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 MS 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

Board Advisors

Bill Best

William Best is a recently retired partner with A.T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm with 35 offices and roughly $1 billion in revenue. As a senior member of the management team, Mr. Best served on the firm’s Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee, while maintaining P&L responsibility for the Asia Pacific region, and the Americas region at various times in his career. In Asia for 12 years, Mr. Best re-started a struggling operation in Tokyo, and eventually grew the Asia business to 11 offices and $100 million in revenue. Later, he was responsible for the Americas region, the firm’s largest and most profitable. His consulting professional work involved marketing, distribution and operations, in a variety of industries, particularly consumer products, automotive, and medical devices. Stepping down from line responsibilities, he oversaw the firm’s internal operations, including information technology, marketing, resource centers, office services, legal, and human resources.

During his career, he has served on a number of charitable boards, including the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago, St John’s Hospital Foundation, and the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, among others. He recently served as the lay board member on the Board of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He also serves on the Board of the Teton Literacy Center, the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs, and the Teton Back Country Horsemen.

Bill and his wife Martha have owned in Teton Valley for 34 years, and have lived here full time for the past 6 years. They have 4 children (2 of which live in Jackson), and 7 grandchildren. His hobbies include skiing, horseback riding, motorcycle riding, and antique wooden boats.

Debby Hopkins

Debby is an independent board member and advisor with Double Chase Advisors.

Debby retired as the CEO of Citi Ventures and the Chief Innovation Officer at Citi in December, 2016 after eight years in that role. Debby joined Citi in 2003 as Head of Corporate Strategy and M&A. She served as Chief Operations & Technology Officer. She has served as Chief Financial Officer at The Boeing Company and Lucent Technologies. She was the General Auditor at General Motors, and VP of Finance at GM Europe in Zurich.

She started her career at Ford in her hometown of Detroit.

Debby is a member of the Board of Directors of Union Pacific, March & McLennan Companies and VentureWell. Also, Debby is an Advisory Board member at Riverwood Capital and Stanford Technology Ventures Program and an Executive Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Fortune twice placed Debby in the top 10 most powerful women in business, and she has been on the Institutional Investor’s Top 50 list every year since 2011.

Debby has been a Director of St. John’s Hospital Foundation since January 2018

Susan Lynn Critzer

Sue is a seasoned executive with over thirty years of experience in the medical device and automotive industries. She holds a BSME from Kettering University and an MBA from University of Michigan. Before retiring to Jackson, she was CEO of two medical device start-ups and served on the boards of several companies in the Twin Cities area. She also served as an adjunct professor and Board of Governors member at the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering in St. Paul, MN, where she helped create a new medical device concentration in the graduate engineering program and lectured on innovation and entrepreneurship. Sue began her career with General Motors, where she held a number of engineering, quality control, and management positions. Sue is a past president of the St. John’s Medical Center Auxiliary. She also volunteers with the Friends of Pathways, and enjoys spending time skiing, biking, fishing, and hiking. She and her husband Kevin have lived in Wilson full time since 2008.

David J. Robertson

David J. Robertson is currently the senior vice president of Networks for Vizient, Inc. In this capacity, he coordinates and directs Vizient’s efforts to serve 59 member health systems representing over 200 hospitals and thousands of non-acute care organizations in 11 states. Vizient helps member hospitals and health systems implement supply chain efficiency strategies, improve clinical performance and accelerate knowledge transfer to improve health care operations overall.

Prior to joining Vizient, Robertson served as president and chief executive officer of the Monongalia Health System in Morgantown, WV. Prior to that, for 18 years he served as CEO of Duncan Regional Hospital in Duncan, OK.

Robertson holds a master’s degree in public health with a concentration in health administration and a master’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in marketing, obtaining both degrees from the University of Missouri in Columbia. He earned his bachelor’s degree in health care administration, graduating summa cum laude, from Wichita State University in Wichita, KS. He is the recipient of numerous awards in the health care industry, including being named the outstanding young health care administrator in both Iowa and Oklahoma.