Ginger Thompson joined the Holzer team in 2017 with a passion to recruit the best fit physicians to her hometown of Gallipolis, Ohio and the southeastern Ohio region. She holds over 15 years healthcare experience ranging in roles from radiologic technologist, clinic management, and recruitment, all within the rural healthcare environment. She holds degrees in both applied science and healthcare administration. With a love of small-town living, she sits on community boards, youth committees, and enjoys spending time with her husband, family, and fur baby Chief on their multigenerational family farm.

Emily joined the Indiana University Health Physician and Advanced Provider recruitment team in 2022, as a senior physician recruiter. Emily has 18+ years of healthcare practice operations and employee management experience. 

Jen has been working as an in-house staff physician recruiter since 2004. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration from Ohio University in 2002 and a MBA with a Healthcare Management focus from Regis University in 2008. She has been working at Cleveland Clinic in the Office of Physician Recruitment since 2007.

Prior to her employment at Cleveland Clinic she was a physician liaison at DeKalb Medical in Decatur, GA handling physician recruitment and retention issues for physicians in the community. Jen manages the recruitment process for several specialties: Bioethics, Primary Care Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Orthopaedic Surgery, Education Institute, Lerner Research Institute and Physician Leadership searches as needed.  Additionally, Jen has oversight of the Resident and Fellow Initiative which offers career service support to trainees as they enter the workforce and Diversity Recruitment activity for the professional staff.  She also manages the department metrics and other strategic projects for her department.

Outside of work, Jen resides in Cleveland with her husband and three children. She enjoys spending time with family, shopping, traveling, dining out, hiking, snowboarding and swimming.

Judd Mellinger-Blouch is the Director of the Pennsylvania Primary Care Career Center. The Career Center helps community health centers and rural health clinics recruit and retain physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other primary care providers. Judd has been working in healthcare since 1986, predominantly in areas of public relations, marketing, communications, provider relations, and recruitment. Prior to joining the Career Center in March 2014, Mr. Mellinger-Blouch was Director of Marketing Communications at the Pennsylvania Medical Society, where he worked for 20 years. He started his career in healthcare as Public Relations Director for Community General Osteopathic Hospital, Harrisburg. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and a Master of Public Administration with a healthcare emphasis from Penn State.

Christy Bray serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at PracticeLink.com, a leading platform in healthcare recruitment. PracticeLink’s mission is to connect healthcare professionals with opportunities that best match their skills and aspirations while empowering healthcare organizations to find the talent they need to deliver exceptional patient care.

Christy has extensive experience in the healthcare industry, having served in various leadership roles. She is skilled in provider relations, team building, process improvement, and staffing solutions. Christy previously served in several committee roles for the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR).

Christy received her bachelor’s degree in health and sport sciences from the University of Oklahoma while working as a student athletic trainer. She completed her master’s degree in healthcare administration and management at Colorado State University. Christy enjoys living in Spring Hill, Tennessee and stays busy with her sons Orsen Allen, age 13, Walter Aaron, age 11, and niece Aurabella Sue, age 13.

Julie Brooks has over 18 years of experience in Nursing, Allied and Locums staffing.  She has worked for MedAssets – a nursing VMS, AMN Healthcare and Locumsmart where she has spent the last 5 years overseeing the National Accounts on their platform.

Matt Brown is a leader focused on innovation, consultation and support for enterprise solutions in Healthcare staffing. As Vice President overseeing Telehealth with CHG Healthcare, Matt brings his advanced thinking to deliver cutting edge staffing solutions to healthcare organizations so they can care for their patients near and far.

Michelle Varcho is the Director of Education Outreach for the National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3RNet). In this role, Michelle coordinates education-related activities for 3RNet members and rural and underserved facilities across the country including trainings using 3RNet’s educational tools such as the Recruiting for Retention manual, a rural-focused plan and guidebook focused on finding and keeping healthcare providers and staff in rural and underserved areas. Prior to joining 3RNet, Michelle was a Human Resources Director for a Federally Qualified Health Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. In this role she created and implemented strategies and best practices to overcome the unique barriers to recruiting and retaining providers in the rural health care arena. Michelle has over twenty five years of experience in health-care related human resources both at the local and national level. She has an MBA from Williams Woods University and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Columbia College. She holds a Sr. Professional Human Resources certification since 2003.