Healthcare recruiter Skinner & Associates names VPs

Healthcare recruiter Skinner & Associates, Executive Search Inc., has appointed Curt Holzer as its vice president of Hospital Systems. Concurrently, Diane Hellickson has been promoted to the position of executive vice president, the organization said.

Holzer is focusing on areas such as PACS, RIS, HIS, and other IT specialties. He has 18 years of experience in healthcare, specializing in early PACS and teleradiology product development, healthcare enterprise infrastructure and storage solutions utilizing IT methodologies and EMR implementation strategy.

Hellickson has been promoted from within and will continue to handle vendors, application specialists, PACS field service engineers and sales representatives.

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