INTRODUCING BERT GUINN
Lelan Woodmansee, CAE
Close friends on a mountain biking excursion to Moab, Utah.
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n behalf of the GLMS Board of Governors, I am pleased to introduce
Bert T. Guinn, MBA, CAE, as Executive Vice President/CEO of the Greater
Louisville Medical Society, effective August
15, 2015. Mr. Guinn is just the third chief
staff executive in 60 years to serve members
of our Medical Society, and he is eminently
qualified to do so. More importantly, he has
the personality, experience, vision, integrity, and humility to connect
with our members and lead our wonderful staff. He will help our
physician leaders identify and address the right issues, make the
right decisions and provide value to our members, your patients
and our community.
We all owe a debt of gratitude to our Executive Search Committee:
Chair James Patrick Murphy, MD, MMM, and members Dean Toni
M. Ganzel, MD, LaQuandra Nesbitt, MD, MPH; David Bybee, MD,
Erica Sutton, MD, Russell Williams, MD, Karyn Hascal, president of
The Healing Place; and consultant Carolyn Kurz, former executive
director of the Lexington Medical Society, for their diligence in
making such an outstanding selection. We also are grateful to our
Board of Governors for heeding their recommendation.
In a sense, Bert needs no introduction, because he has been at
the Medical Society for the past 17 years. During that time, Bert
has excelled at every task given to him by the Society and GLMS
Foundation, dating back to driving the van to pick up surplus
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medical supplies for the fledgling Supplies Over Seas program in
the late 1990s. He was director of Supplies Over Seas from 2000
to 2003 before becoming the Medical Society’s Director of Public
Affairs in 2004. He has served as Director of Communications
& Membership, Chief Communications Officer and since 2013,
Associate Executive Director.
Bert was an honor society member at Ball State University, where
he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. He received a
Master of Business Administration with a 4.0 GPA from Indiana
Wesleyan University in 2006. Bert is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) of the American Society of Association Executives,
the highest professional credential in association management,
achieved by just the top five percent of all association professionals worldwide. Moreover, Bert has led a multistate study group of
colleagues preparing to sit for the rigorous CAE exam, covering
11 domains of expertise the field requires. He is a Certified Public
Information Officer by the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security
and a Registered Legislative Agent with the Kentucky Legislative
Ethics Commission.
Bert has the credentials and experience for the job, but more importantly, he has all the right intangible qualities. As Carolyn Kurz
learned in her face-to-face interviews, Bert is universally esteemed
by our staff, and he connects magnificently with our members,
especially younger ones and physicians in training, whether in
person or via social media.
Bert deeply respects physicians and the work you do, and he