HCO Fall Conference Speakers Biographical Information
Barbara Kommer Epic/EHR Communications, Legacy Health
Barbara Kommer supports Epic/EHR communications at Legacy Health. Before joining Legacy, she consulted on strategic communications and managed
communications for the roll-out of enterprise-wide projects. She established the worldwide employee communications function at Agilent Technologies, an $8B HP spin-off. She spent nearly 20 years at HP in a variety of communication, public affairs and financial relations roles. Her work on crisis communication was recognized by an IABC Gold Quill
award.
Michael J. Riley
Mike Riley is President and Research Director for Riley Research Associates, a Portland-based global research and communications consulting firm Mike was an Honors graduate of Oregon State University, School of Business Administration, with an emphasis in Marketing & Behavioral Sciences.
Riley is a Past President of the Oregon Chapter of the American Marketing Association; and has served on the boards of the Public Relations Society, the Portland Advertising Federation, the Rotary Club of Portland, the Beaverton Education Foundation, the Healthcare Communicators of Oregon and the Boys & Girls Aid Society Government Affairs Committee.
Mike is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America (APR), and is recognized with a Professional Researcher Certification (PRC), from the Market Research Association.
With 30 years in practice, his clients are varied, including Legacy Health, Umpqua Bank, Samaritan Health Services, PGE, the Port of Portland, Oregon Health Sciences University, Intel, Xerox, LaCrosse Footwear, Oregon State University, Willamette University, and Concordia.
Alan Shoebridge, Marketing Director of Physician and CVlinical Services for Providence Health & Services
Alan Shoebridge is the marketing director of physician and clinical services for Providence Health & Services, Oregon’s largest health care system with more than 17,000 employees and 600 employed physicians. His current role focuses on marketing plan development, advertising, messaging, research and other areas. He has more than 10 years of direct marketing and communications experience for health care and medical insurance organizations. Alan has also worked as a newspaper reporter and in public relations. He earned his BA in English from the University of Oregon.
John Tierney, Executive Producer of KATU.com
John Tierney is the executive producer of KATU.com, the website of Portland ABC affiliate KATU. John guides daily online news coverage and manages all of KATU’s social networking initiatives.
Under his leadership, KATU’s Facebook page has doubled its number of “likes” and the station’s Twitter page (@KATUNews) has grown to almost 10,000 followers.
John graduated from the University of Oregon with degrees in broadcast and newspaper journalism. During the fall, he’s often distracted from working when he starts talking about Ducks football. He has missed one Ducks home game in nine seasons.
John is also an avid traveler and just recently returned from a trip to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Brian S. Terrett,Director of Public Relations and Community Relations for Legacy Health
Brian S. Terrett serves as the Director of Public Relations and Community Relations for Legacy Health. In that role, he is responsible for strategic communications and reputation management for one of Oregon’s largest healthcare systems. Prior to joining Legacy Health, he was a principal and creative partner with Cinduda Communications/PR Ink. Brian also was the Director of Public Affairs & Communications for PeaceHealth Oregon Region.
Brian earned an MBA from Northwest Christian University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Metropolitan State College of Denver. He is accreditation in public relations from the Public Relations Society of America. He served as presidents of the Healthcare Communicators of Oregon and the Greater Oregon chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.
