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.

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.

Shannon Novosad is a Medical Officer in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and currently serves as team lead for the Dialysis Safety Team. Dr. Novosad received her medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She completed internal medicine residency training at Duke University and subspecialty training in pulmonary/critical care medicine at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). In 2015, Dr. Novosad came to CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer assigned to the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion where she investigated outbreaks in healthcare settings. Her areas of concentration include prevention of central line-associated bloodstream infections and increasing safety of patients on dialysis. She has assisted with agency wide responses at CDC including developing guidance for and supporting dialysis facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stephanie Booth is the Infection Prevention Educator for the Making Dialysis Safer for Patients Coalition. She has a degree in Health Care Administration (HCA), a Certification of Infection Control (CIC), and is contracted in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC). Stephanie’s expertise relies heavily on her 15+ years experience in the dialysis setting as a certified tech, bio-med tech, coordinator, and educator.

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.

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.

Melanie lives in Roseau, MN. She is married and has three children. She began her dialysis career in 1999 in Bemidji, MN working as an LPN. She then obtained her RN and CDN. Over the last 20 years she has worked in numerous nephrology and dialysis roles at Altru Health System including CKD educator, vascular access coordinator, patient care supervisor and the last 10 years as the regional dialysis clinic supervisor. She dedicates significant time to the quality program including annual enhancements to improve the accuracy and efficiency of internal reporting.