About Us

Since 1977, Healthcare Purchasing News (HPN) magazine remains the only comprehensive healthcare business news magazine dedicated to reporting the information, solutions and stories about medical products and systems that affect healthcare supply chain management, monthly in-print and daily online. Our readership includes the healthcare executives, and professionals from materials and supply chain management, surgical services, infection prevention, central service and sterile processing as well as clinical members of the product evaluation committees at healthcare facilities.

Publishing Team:

GROUP PUBLISHER, HEALTHCARE

Chris Driscoll
[email protected]
978-880-8345

EDITORIAL TEAM

Janette Wider
Editor-in-Chief
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Matt MacKenzie
Associate Editor
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Kara Nadeau
Senior Contributing Editor 
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EAST/WEST COAST SALES

Kristen Hoffman
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603-891-9122

CENTRAL/MIDWEST SALES

April Bruffy
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713-936-5076
Cell: 713-992-0381

STRATEGIC ACCOUNT SALES

Chris Driscoll
[email protected]
978-880-8345

SUPPORT

Karen Runion
Advertising Contracts/Materials
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(330) 736-1291

Editorial Advisory Board:

Jimmy Chung, MD, FACS Associate Vice President, Perioperative Portfolio, Providence St. Joseph Health, Renton, WA

Joe Colonna Chief Supply Chain and Project Management Officer, Piedmont Healthcare, Atlanta, GA

Karen Conway Vice President, Healthcare Value, GHX, Louisville, CO

Dee Donatelli RN, BSN, MBA Senior Director Spend symplr and Principal Dee Donatelli Consulting LLC, Austin, TX

Hudson Garrett Jr., PhD, FNAP, FSHEA, FIDSA Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Medicine

Melanie Miller, RN, CVAHP, CNOR, CSPDM Value Analysis Consultant, Healthcare Value Management Experts Inc. (HVME) Los Angeles, CA

Dennis Orthman Dennis Orthman Consulting, Braintree, MA

Janet Pate Nurse Consultant and Educator, Ruhof Corp.

Richard Perrin CEO, Active Innovations LLC, Annapolis, MD

Jean Sargent, CMRP, FAHRMM, FCS Principal, Sargent Healthcare Strategies, Port Charlotte, FL

Richard W. Schule, MBA, BS, FAST, CST, FCS, CRCST, CHMMC, CIS, CHL, AGTS Managing Director Synergy Health NorthEast at STERIS Instrument Management Services

Barbara Strain, MA, CVAHP Principal, Barbara Strain Consulting LLC, Charlottesville, VA

Deborah Petretich Templeton, RPh, MHA Chief Administrative Officer (Ret.), System Support Services, Geisinger Health, Danville, PA

Ray Taurasi Principal, Healthcare CS Solutions, Washington, DC area