Amy Jo Osborn is the first chief executive officer for The Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer. Osborn and her husband, Dr. James M. Osborn, founded the Austin Hatcher Foundation in 2006 after their son, Austin Hatcher Osborn, passed of a rare form of childhood cancer. Following this loss, the Osborns noted a gap in the services that were offered to families impacted by pediatric cancer and founded AHFPC with the goal of walking alongside families throughout their childhood cancer journey. Since co-founding the organization in 2006, Amy Jo Osborn has served in the role of president as a volunteer. As president, Osborn spearheaded the organization’s significant local and national growth, including a 1,200% increase in fundraising and a 4,600% increase in asset development. Osborn has also been instrumental in developing partnerships with more than 42 hospitals in 26 states to provide services to more than 88,000 individuals.
Nathan Fort joins the city of Dayton’s parks and recreation department as its new director. Fort previously served as education services director for the Salvation Army of Nashville and recreation manager for the city of Columbia. A graduate of Bethel College, Fort was voted by the National Recreation and Park Association as one of the top 30 young professionals in the parks and recreation field under 30. The city of Dayton operates the Pendergrass, Point and Centennial parks, and it furnishes and maintains 11 ball fields, nine tennis courts, three soccer fields, a football stadium, a college-size basketball court and a pickleball court. Fort said he is looking to expand and grow recreation opportunities in Dayton.
Marti Arvin is now chief compliance officer for Erlanger Health System. Arvin has more than three decades of experience in health care in the areas of compliance, research, privacy, information security, governance and regulatory oversight. Prior to joining Erlanger, Arvin was vice president of compliance and privacy services for a health care consulting company that provided compliance and business development services to health care organizations. Her consulting clients included a variety of organizations such as academic medical centers, physician practices and traditional hospital institutions. Arvin’s compliance career has also included serving as a chief compliance and privacy officer of four different academic medical centers over a span of 18 years, the most recent being the UCLA Health System and the David Geffen School of Medicine.
Kelly Etchells joins Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel P.C. as a shareholder of the Chattanooga law firm. Licensed in Tennessee, Georgia and Florida, Etchells is a member of the firm’s litigation section and represents large and small businesses in state and federal courts in a variety of commercial disputes. She provides dispute resolution for matters ranging from contractual issues to product liability. She also counsels clients on real property disputes and trade secrets matters. Prior to joining Chambliss, Etchells practiced at a large international law firm in Atlanta, where she focused on product liability defense, and served as a law clerk to a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. She is recognized in the “Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch” list for 2022 and has been involved in several community organizations, including Little Miss Mag, Orange Grove Center, Habitat for Humanity, Chattanooga Hamilton County Medical Alliance, and Brock-Cooper Inn of Court. Etchells graduated summa cum laude and second in her class at the University of Georgia School of Law.
Anna Protano-Biggs is the new president and CEO of the AIM Center. Originally from England with an Italian background, Protano-Biggs is a barrister-at-law and attorney-at-law with an international perspective. Protano-Biggs is the founder of the Hamilton County Mental Health Court and served as its inaugural director. She has worked for nine and a half years as a public defender in Chattanooga where she was lead attorney working with mental health consumers and clients with traumatic brain injury and developmental and intellectual disabilities. Prior to coming to Chattanooga, Protano-Biggs served as a senior research officer to the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health, served the 56th United Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, as a representative and speaker and worked with an Independent Health Research Project in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.