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Amy Tolchinsky, (404) 523-3486, atolchinsky@cdc.gov
Jack O. Bovender Jr. and Charles H. “Pete” McTier
Join CDC Foundation
Board of Directors
June 28, 2007, ATLANTA — Jack O. Bovender Jr., chairman and CEO of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), and Charles H. “Pete” McTier, trustee of the Robert W. Woodruff, Joseph B. Whitehead and Lettie Pate Evans Foundations, have each been elected to serve a five-year term on the board of directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation.
Bovender is a 38-year veteran of the healthcare industry and has worked at HCA for 29 years. HCA is the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services, with 173 hospitals and 109 outpatient centers in the United States, Great Britain and Switzerland. Bovender was lauded by Institutional Investor magazine as “Best CEO in America” for healthcare facilities in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Bovender currently serves on the board of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, and he is a member of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business Board of Visitors. He is a founding member of the Nashville Health Care Council and has served on the boards of several Nashville human services and art organizations.
Bovender served on the Board of Governors of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), and in 2007, he was bestowed ACHE’s Gold Medal Award, recognizing his significant career-long contributions to the healthcare profession. He earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in hospital administration from Duke University.
McTier has been associated with the Robert W. Woodruff, Joseph B, Whitehead, Lettie Pate Evans and Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundations for more than 35 years. He served as president of each of these foundations from 1988 until his retirement in June 2006. Currently he is a trustee of the Robert W. Woodruff, Joseph B. Whitehead and Lettie Pate Evans Foundations.
Active in regional and national foundation associations, he served as chairman of The Foundation Center Board of Trustees, vice chairman of the Council of Foundations and chairman of the Southeastern Council of Foundations. For nine years he was a commissioner of the Joint Commission on Accreditations of Health Care Organizations.
Currently McTier is on the board of directors of AGL Resources, Coca-Cola FEMSA S.A. de. C.V. and is an advisory director of SunTrust Bank, Atlanta. He also serves as a director of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and is a trustee of Emory University; Ichauway, Inc.; the Ida Cason Callaway Foundation; The Commerce Club and the North Georgia United Methodist Foundation. He is a graduate of the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and currently serves as a Goizueta Executive Fellow.
“Jack and Pete will be great additions to our board,” says Phil Jacobs, CDC Foundation board chair and president, Business Communications Services, AT&T Southeast. “In their personal and professional lives, they truly embody many of the values we believe in and are clearly committed to protecting and improving the health of people nationwide.”
Established by Congress, the CDC Foundation helps CDC do more, faster by forging effective partnerships between CDC and individuals, corporations and foundations to fight threats to health and safety. For more information, please visit www.cdcfoundation.org.
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