David Hyman, DDS, a board director for Hartford (CT) HealthCare, will chair the AHA's 2018 Committee on Governance. Victor Orler, chair of Presence Health in Chicago, will serve as chair-elect and become chair in 2019. The COG is a specialty committee of the AHA Board of Trustees that provides input for AHA policy development and trustee initiatives, and leads effective involvement of the nation's hospital trustees in grassroots advocacy and the AHA. For more on the committee and its newly elected members, see the AHA news release.

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