2025 Election Information

Nominations Closed

 

Five open seats are available for the 2025 Urgent Care Association Board of Directors Election.

  • The online election opens April 16 closing May 6, 1:00 p.m. CST/2:00 p.m. ET. 
  • The new Board of Directors members will be announced at the UCA Member Meeting and Reception during the 2025 Urgent Care Convention Tuesday, May 6.

Thank you for your leadership and vision during your service to the UCA Board of Directors:

Meet the Candidates

Cassandra Barnette Donnelly, DO
Regional Medical Director 
Piedmont Urgent Care by Wellstreet

April Gillam
Head of Industry Strategy and Consulting
Solv Health

Catherine C. Grant, MSPAS, PA-C, DFAAPA
Founder, CEO & Board Director
ExperCARE Health

Shelley Janssen, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
Doctors Care

Randy Johansen
Former Chief Executive Officer/Advisor to CEO
American Family Care

Jeannie Kenkare, DO, FCUCM
President
Yale New Haven Health Urgent Care

Alicia Tezel, MD, FAAP, FCUCM
Pediatrician
Little Spurs Pediatric Urgent Care
Advisor 2025
CMO 2019-2024

Janae Walsh RN, BSN, MSN-FNP
Family Nurse Practitioner, Clinic Director, Culture Champion
Davam Urgent Care

Amy Wright, MSN, RN
Director of Urgent Care, Telehealth and Access 
Jefferson Health 

Nominations

Criteria for candidacy: 

  1. Nominees must have been an active member of UCA for at least one year prior to the first date of the election opening. 
  2. Nominees to director positions in the Association may come from a majority of the Board of Directors or may be a written nomination. Written nominations must include two letters of recommendation from current UCA members who are not from the same organization as the nominee or each other and also include a letter of intent addressing their qualifications and interest in board service.
  3. Each nominee will be required to submit a headshot and brief biography including why they wish to be considered for a UCA Board of Directors position as well as participate in a short audio Q&A recording with UCA’s Chief Executive Officer, Lou Ellen Horwitz.

Meet and Greet Times at the Urgent Care Convention

There will be two scheduled times for attendees to meet
the candidates at the convention.

Saturday, May 3,
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. at the Come as You Are Reception at the
Gossip Bar.

Monday, May 5,
7:00 – 7:45 a.m.  Gossip Bar.

Board Responsibilities

Each Director serves a three-year term and can serve up to two consecutive terms. Board Officers are elected by the Directors. 

All UCA Board of Directors members are required to attend quarterly virtual meetings and one in-person meeting (at the Urgent Care Convention) each year.  

View the current Board of Directors here. 

Voting

The Election opens April 16 closing May 6, 1:00 p.m. CST/2:00 p.m. ET. 

 Votes are submitted via electronic ballot emailed to voters upon the election’s opening. 

Who is eligible to vote in the UCA elections for the Board of Directors? 

Voting eligibility is based on the UCA Bylaws. 

Individual Members are identified as someone who has purchased a membership for themselves, not someone who receives benefits from their organization’s membership. (Digital members are not eligible to vote.) 

Organizational Members receive one ballot sent to the person identified as the key contact for UCA.  That key contact will cast the ballot on behalf of the organization.  Each ballot is then weighted based on the number of centers within the organization. 

Organizational Ballot Weights

  • Organizations with 1-5 centers will receive one ballot with a weight of five. 
  • Organizations with 6+ centers will receive one ballot with a weight equal to the number of centers within the organization. 

Members who do not currently have voting rights in the UCA Board Elections are: 

  • Individual benefit recipients of an organizational membership are individuals tied to a membership purchased by their organization to provide benefits to their employees. The membership is owned by the organization, so the organization’s key contact will receive one ballot to cast on the organization’s behalf. 
  • Corporate Members 
  • Digital Members