Congratulations to Audrey Meyers, WG'80 and Bryan Bushick, MD, MBA (WG’89) on receiving 2025 WHCMAA Alumni Awards. Audrey is the recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award, and Bryan received the Outstanding Service Award.
Audrey and Bryan will accept their awards at our annual alumni dinner on Thursday, November 13, 2025.
Audrey served as Chief Executive Officer of Valley Health System, a nationally recognized regional healthcare system serving northern New Jersey and southern New York. During her 45-year career with Valley, she has held key executive leadership positions in strategic planning, management, operations, and governance.
As CEO, she was responsible for the strategic and day-to-day operations of one of New Jersey’s busiest hospitals, ranked among the top three hospitals in the state by U.S. News and World Report, included as one of the World’s Best Hospitals by Newsweek, and in the top 2% of hospitals nationwide as one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades. She also oversaw a busy home care agency, and an award-winning medical group of close to 500 physicians and advanced practice providers across 50 specialties and multiple locations.
In addition, she led the organization through a successful debt offering to support the construction of an $868 million state-of-the-art replacement hospital on a new 40-acre site in Paramus, New Jersey.
She is included as one of the top leaders in both the NJBIZ Power 100 list as well as its list of the Health Care Power 50. In 2024, she was recognized by ROI-NJ as one of the top three female leaders and one of the most influential individuals in the business world on the Super 60 Power List. She was also recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Jersey Hospital Association in recognition of her many years of service to Valley.
Bryan will begin his sixteenth year as a WHCMAA Board member on July 1, 2025, and his second term as President of the Board, after first holding that position from July 2007 through June 2009. Bryan has served the Health Care Management program, its alumni, and other Association members as a volunteer for more than three decades; more years than anyone in the history of the organization (except, of course, June Kinney).
In addition to six years on the Executive Committee (four as Vice President and two as President), Bryan either chaired or co-chaired the WHCMAA Alumni Conference four (4) times and chaired the Membership Committee. Bryan has also participated on the Career Development Committee and served as a liaison to Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and as an Ambassador for the HCM classes of ‘88 and ‘89.
A seasoned executive and consultant, Bryan is presently the Managing Director, Healthcare Alliance & Chief Healthcare Innovation Officer at Amplifire, a fully virtual private company headquartered in Boulder, CO. Amplifire’s neuroscience-based adaptive learning platform enables health systems to build workforce capacity while reducing avoidable harm, enhancing provider wellness, and improving clinical and financial performance. The technology includes unique learner-level analytics as well as AI-assisted content curation. A brain science-trained AI tutor will be commercially released in 2025 and will further revolutionize education and frontline caregiver support. Amplifire also addresses training priorities for numerous healthinsurers, life sciences companies, and medical device manufacturers, as well as the education, aviation and accounting sectors.
Recognition of Bryan’s health sector experience and competencies was evident when the U.S. Secretary of Commerce appointed him in 2011 (and reappointed in 2014) to the Board of Overseers of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, a world-renowned public-private partnership that helps organizations of all sizes achieve and sustain best-in-class performance. Prior to serving on the Board of Overseers, Bryan volunteered for five years as a Senior Examiner. In that capacity, he assisted with the creation of Baldrige’s Health Care criteria and led the team that assessed the first health system to pilot it.
Congratulations to both alumni!
