The Medical Equipment Suppliers Association has unanimously approved its 2009 officers and directors. Starting January 1, the new officers and directors will be:

Board:

• President – Kevin Ehemann, Alliance HomeCare Equipment (Little Rock Ark.).
• Vice President – Michelle Boyett, Weaver Home Medical (Tyler, Texas).
• Secretary/Treasurer – Michele Garthright, Mike’s Medical (Clinton, Okla.).
• Immediate Past President – Cindy Bishop, Diamond Medical Supply (Little Rock Ark.).

Directors:

• Cory Baker, CRT, RCP, Choice Medical Supply (Abilene, Texas).
• Sandra Blum, Medical Equipment Specialties–Brenham (Brenham, Texas).
• Charles Boyte, Edge Medical Supply (Tyler, Texas).
• C.A. Kuykendall, Village Pharmacy/Medical Equipment (Ozark, Okla.).
• Preston Schoen, Patient Care Pharmacy (Covington, La.).
• John Stogner, Del Norte Pharmacies & Home Medical of New Mexico (Sherman, Texas, but New Mexico rep on Board).
• Dennis Teal, Cimmaron Medical Services (Stillwater, Okla.).
• Tiffany Walsh, LPN, CCRC, Medical Park Homecare (Bartlesville, Okla.).

Three long-time board members had reached the term limits, and as dictated by MESA’s bylaws, had to step down at least for a year. They were:

• Director, Secretary/Treasurer and Past President,  Dede Shinabery, American Home Patient (Little Rock, Ark.).
• Director and Secretary/Treasurer, Sandra  Hoskin, American Medical Equipment Company (Houston, Texas), who also  filled in through much of this year for President Cindy Bishop, when  the latter’s husband was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
• Director Wanda Ellis, In Home Respiratory  (Baton Rouge, La.).