Sarah is a detail-oriented leader with twenty years of experience in marketing and cloud-based technology, specializing in sales, marketing, customer service, and reporting tools. She has served as an enterprise architect, product owner and program/project manager at leading regional and national healthcare institutions. Sarah led dynamic, cross-functional teams through multiple product and platform migrations, improving business processes and driving sales growth.

A graduate of Rosemont College with a Master’s in Strategic Leadership, Sarah is also an active volunteer, serving on various boards and committees, including as a Higher Award Coach for Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, Vice-President of Village on the Ridge, and Technology Co-Chair for Philanos. With a strong foundation in both technology and leadership, Sarah is passionate about driving innovation and fostering collaborative, data-driven environments.

Chris Sund serves as President & COO of Uniti Med and GQR Healthcare, and COO of Nebula, where he leads across both healthcare staffing and AI-driven talent intelligence, helping organizations solve one of their biggest challenges, finding and engaging the right talent. In this role, he helps lead one of the largest healthcare staffing organizations in the United States, supporting hospitals and health systems nationwide.

With nearly a decade of experience in healthcare staffing and executive leadership, Chris is known for scaling teams, strengthening culture, and driving sustainable growth in people-driven businesses. In his first two years at Uniti Med, he helped grow the company from $5 million to more than $60 million in revenue, earning the #3 ranking on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies in the Midwest. Today, he oversees operations across a healthcare staffing platform exceeding $100 million in annual revenue.

In addition to his executive leadership roles, Chris is a sought-after keynote speaker who presents at conferences and leadership events across the United States. His keynotes draw from real-world experience and focus on leadership, recruitment, sales, and business development, helping organizations compete for talent, build resilient teams, and grow in highly competitive markets.

A Maxwell Leadership Certified Speaker, Coach, and Trainer, Chris blends practical strategy with engaging storytelling to equip audiences with tools they can apply immediately.

Chris serves as Vice President of the National Association of Travel Healthcare Organizations (NATHO) and contributes to the Membership & Marketing team for the National Association of Health Care Recruiters (NAHCR). Outside of work, he enjoys time with his wife, a respiratory therapist, and their three sons.

Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Tainesha Owens blends purpose with joy in everything she does. An artist, licensed social worker, and curator of joy, she treats her work as both a calling and a creative practice. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's of Social Work degrees from The Ohio State University, dedicating her time to creating spaces of belonging, healing, and empowerment for students and the wider community.

Her leadership as President of the Black Graduate and Professional Student Caucus centered mental health and wellness as essential to collective success, work that earned her the 2022 National Association of Social Workers (OH) Student of the Year Award. Beyond campus, she channels her passion for well-being into The Bold Joy Movement, a platform dedicated to cultivating joy as a form of nourishment, wellness, and restoration in various communities.

Tainesha moves through every space, committed to pouring into the communities she joins, working alongside the people who make those spaces what they are. A proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., she serves on the I Be Black Girl Blac Fund Council and works as a social worker with Veterans Affairs NWI. In each role, she centers collaboration, care, and the collective well-being of those she serves. For Tainesha, joy is not a fleeting moment but a deliberate practice of survival, one tool among many in the sacred work of sustaining ourselves in this world to transform lives and fortify communities as boldly as possible.

Valerie Dehline is a Nurse Consultant for hospital and ESRD regulations. Valerie works in the Bureau of Education Services and Technology within the Quality Assurance Division for the State of Wisconsin. Valerie has a master’s degree in nursing and has worked as a nurse for almost 40 years. Valerie has worked with regulatory requirements for over 15 years and has worked in both hospital and clinic settings.

Naomi began her nursing career in 1995 after graduating with a bachelor of arts in nursing from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She started her dialysis career in November of 2001 working in the Hemodialysis unit in Detroit Lakes, MN. Now, with almost 24 years of dialysis experience, her career has included in-center hemodialysis, 10 + years working in peritoneal and home hemodialysis, 15+ years of  policy and procedure development and review as chair and co-chair for both in-center and home dialysis, and various other task forces to improve outcomes for patients.  

A partner at Mehlman Consulting, Dean Rosen is one of Washington’s foremost experts on America’s complex health care system—and a master of both the politics and policies that shape it. With three decades of experience developing and advancing health policy initiatives on Capitol Hill and in the private sector, Rosen has been named a “Top Lobbyist” by The Hill, a “Power Player” that healthcare groups turn to by Modern Healthcare, and one of the “DC Healthcare Power Players Who Shape the Rules for a $3.5 trillion industry” by Business Insider. Rosen advises a wide range of health care stakeholders, from established players to startups trying to gain a foothold in Washington, DC. He has represented health systems and hospitals, medical colleges and physician professional organizations, health insurers, clinical laboratories, biopharmaceutical companies, nonprofit foundations, and multinational employers. He helps clients shape national policy and navigate the transformational changes taking place in the nation’s health care system. Through multiple roles with the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship, the Society of Health Policy Young Professionals, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellowship, Rosen has devoted decades to supporting and mentoring the next generation of health policy leaders. In 2023, Rosen joined the Distinguished Executive Council of Cressey & Company, providing strategic advice to the leading mid-market health care private equity firm. Prior to joining Mehlman Consulting, Rosen held a series of high-level positions in both the private sector and government, including on key committees in both the Senate and House. As the Chief Healthcare Advisor to former Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), a leading voice on national medical and health issues, Rosen helped draft and navigate to final passage landmark legislation creating a Medicare prescription drug benefit and President George W. Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to combat HIV/AIDS. Rosen also helped pass laws in the wake of the September 11 and bioterrorism attacks in 2001 to ensure that local, state, and national public health systems had new authorities and resources to respond to future threats. Earlier, Rosen served as Staff Director for the Senate Subcommittee on Public Health, Majority Counsel for the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, and Health Policy Coordinator for the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (now the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee). While at Ways and Means, he played a leading role in crafting the Medicare provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. At Labor, he was the lead Senate staffer drafting the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Rosen’s policy, legal, and management experience expands beyond Capitol Hill. He served as Senior Vice President of Policy and General Counsel for the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA), and practiced law at Dow, Lohnes and Albertson in Washington, DC.

Adrian Amedia currently serves as the RHA Treasurer and is the owner of Independent Dialysis Group, LLC. He has extensive experience with Nephrology and Dialysis billing, payer contracting, EHR integration, dialysis facility operations, access center operations and healthcare business development. Independent Dialysis Group operates 7 clinics in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Providing over 25 years of care ranging from HD, PD, HHD and SNF HHD.

Becky Berg is a native of North Dakota and is currently living in Thief River Falls MN. She has 3 very active kids who keep her busy year round. She has worked as a dialysis floor nurse, charge nurse, unit manager and now regional Dialysis Director for Sanford Health. She is currently co-chair of both the Education and Quality Committees. She created the 2018 version of the RHA QAPI tool and is currently working with a Task Force to create an updated tool. She joined the RHA Board of Directors last fall.

Adrian Amedia currently serves as the RHA Treasurer and is the owner of Independent Dialysis Group, LLC. He has extensive experience with Nephrology and Dialysis billing, payer contracting, EHR integration, dialysis facility operations, access center operations and healthcare business development. Independent Dialysis Group operates 7 clinics in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Providing over 25 years of care ranging from HD, PD, HHD and SNF HHD.

Julie Williams has been a Dialysis Administrator for 35 years working as an Administrator for several small, physician-owned dialysis programs in SW Missouri, NW Arkansas and NE Oklahoma. She was Controller and Area Administrator for Renal Care Group for 5 years and was responsible for regulatory and financial oversight of East Texas Market including outpatient hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and acute dialysis programs. She also worked on a due diligence team to review programs for acquisitions. Julie is currently Administrator and part owner with multiple physician groups of 6 independent dialysis programs. She was a Practice manager for a Nephrology group practice for almost 30 years.