Governor Tina Kotek has nominated three new members for the Oregon Health & Science University board of directors, and renominated two others.

As some current members reach the end of their terms, the appointments, if approved, would establish the partial new makeup of the 11-member oversight council at Oregon’s flagship medical institution following a period of internal turbulence and a time of great uncertainty and budget strain in the health care space.

One new nominee is Betsy Johnson, a former state senator and fixture in state politics for decades who not long ago ran against Kotek for governor. The others are Chris Abbruzzese, senior vice president at the wealth management firm Robertson Stephens, and Sadhana Shenoy, who formerly chaired the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Sy

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