Mercy Health Systems Officials Address Supply Chain Management Classes
Adam Gunter, Marc Gunter, Dean Matt Waller, Eric Pianalto, Vance Moore and Megan Moore
Officials from Mercy Health Systems of Northwest Arkansas talked to supply chain management classes, met with administrators and got a tour of the campus when they visited the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas recently.
Eric Pianalto, president; Vance Moore, senior vice president of operations and resource optimization and innovation; and Marc Gunter, senior vice president and chief operations officer of clinics; visited to share their expertise with students and learn more about innovations at the Walton College.
The three met with Dean Matt Waller; Anne O'Leary-Kelly, senior associate dean; Alan Ellstrand, associate dean; Meredith Adkins, corporate outreach director of the college's career center; and Erin Duncan, assistant director of development for the College of Education and Health Professions before talking to supply chain strategy classes taught by Sebastian Garcia-Dastugue, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management.
Pianalto graduated from the Walton College in 1989; Moore is a 1984 graduate of Walton College, and Gunter graduated from the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences in 1989.
Gunter's son Adam is a Walton College student; Moore's daughter Megan is a nursing student at the U of A, and Pianalto's son Brooke is a marketing student.
Contacts
Becca Shanklin, assistant director of development
Sam M. Walton College of Business
479-575-5425,
beccas@uark.edu
David Speer, director of communications
Sam M. Walton College of Business
479-575-2539,
dlspeer@uark.edu
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