Governor Perdue Announces Executive Appointments

ATLANTA – Governor Sonny Perdue announced today the following executive appointments:

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Mary M. Boyert, 61, Duluth — Boyert is the pro-life director for the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta.  She has served as the executive director for Georgia Right to Life Committee, Inc., where she also served as volunteer president and education director.  Boyert earned a bachelor’s degree from St. John College of Cleveland.  She and her husband, Tom, have one grown child, survive one child, and have one grandchild.

Michael M.E. Johns, M.D., 66, Atlanta — Johns is chancellor of Emory University.  Prior to his appointment as chancellor, he served the university for 12 years in various positions, including chief executive officer of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, executive vice president for health affairs, and chairman of the board of Emory Healthcare.  He also served as the dean of the medical faculty and vice president for medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  Johns earned a bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University and a medical degree from the University of Michigan School of Medicine.  He and his wife, Trina, have two grown children and five grandchildren.

Kenneth “Ken” G. Kupke, M.D., 50, Atlanta — Kupke is a neonatologist with Neonatology Associates, PC.  He is on active staff in the department of medicine at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, and in the department of pediatrics at Northside Hospital, where he serves as a member of the perinatal services committee and as co-chairman of the neonatal resuscitation committee.  He is a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Society of Human Genetics, and he has helped author numerous medical publications.  Kupke earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a medical degree from Duke University.  He and his wife, Martha, have two children.   

David H. Munn, M.D., 50, Augusta — Munn is a professor of pediatric hematology-oncology at the Medical College of Georgia.  He is the founder and program leader for the cancer immunotherapy program in the Cancer Research Center at MCG.  He is a member of the National Institute of Health’s Transplantation, Tolerance, and Tumor Immunology study section.  Munn earned a bachelor’s degree from Mercer University, and a medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. 

Gerardo “Gerry” L. Sotomayor, M.D., 53, Atlanta — Sotomayer is the medical director of Northlake OB/GYN, P.C., and is on active staff at Northside Hospital where he serves on the speaker’s bureau committee and the hospital educational advisory board.  He is the founder of Babies for Life Foundation.  He is a member of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Medical Association, and the Atlanta OB-GYN Society.  Sotomayer earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Puerto Rico, a medical degree from Universidad Central del Caribe, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in bioethics.  He and his wife, Vivian, have three children.

Robert K. Yu, Ph.D., Med.Sc.D., 70, Augusta — Yu is a professor and director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics at the Medical College of Georgia.  He is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and is a member of the American Society for Neurochemistry, the International Society for Neurochemistry, and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  Yu earned a bachelor’s degree from Tunghai University in Taiwan, a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a doctorate of medical science from Tokyo University in Japan.  He and his wife, Helen, have two grown children.

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