ASHE Announces Incoming 2025 Advisory Board Members

American Society for Health Care Engineering has announced the results of the 2025 Advisory Board election. As members of the ASHE Advisory Board, these individuals will help guide the association’s strategic plan by sharing key insights from the field and providing feedback on advocacy, education and membership initiatives. Seven individuals, five of whom have previously served on the ASHE Advisory Board, will begin their terms on Jan. 1, 2025.

Dennis Ford, MHA, CHFM, CHC, FASHE, is the 2025 ASHE president-elect. Ford is the director of corporate facilities management support for Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is serving his second consecutive term on the ASHE Advisory Board as Region 3 Representative. He has more than 25 years of healthcare facilities management experience.

Mark Mochel, MBA, CHFM, PMP, ACABE, strategic account executive for Brightly, a Siemens Company, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, will serve as one of two associate member representatives beginning in 2025. Before joining Brightly, Mochel was a co-founder and senior vice president at Facility Health Inc., where he was instrumental in introducing new infrastructure investment solutions and benchmarking capabilities to the healthcare industry.

The entire eligible ASHE membership votes on president-elect and associate member representative candidates. In addition, members vote on regional representatives, who serve their specific geographic region. The following individuals are the new ASHE Advisory Board regional representatives:

• Region 1 Representative: Edmund Lydon, MHA, CHFM, CHEP, FASHE, senior director of facilities and support services at Northeast Hospital Corporation, a member of Beth Israel Health in Beverly, Massachusetts
• Region 2 Representative: Laurie Anseth, MSL, CHFM, SASHE, system maintenance and engineering director for JLL at Main Line Health in Radnor, Pennsylvania
• Region 4 Representative: Lotoya Beard, MBA, CHFM, executive director of hospital maintenance for UAB Hospital at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Region 5 Representative: Donald Page, MBA, CHFM, director of facilities at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Indiana
• Region 9 Representative: Narsimha Irrinki, MS, P.E., CHFM, SASHE, enterprise director of facilities at Santa Clara Valley Health, in San Jose, California.