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Archive > April, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 4

Kathy Bryant Is Stepping Down

Since 1998, she's been the face and figurehead of the ASC industry.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

How shall we remember Kathy Bryant? As the hard-charging lobbyist with the shock of bright orange hair and the deep nasal voice who gave the ambulatory surgery center industry a seat at some very important tables during her 12-plus years in Washington, D.C., first as the third president of the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association and then as the first head of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, the national group formed after 2008's FASA-AAASC merger?

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