The Gulf Coast Region of the American Heart Association Names New Board Members

SPRING, TX -- The American Heart Association’s Gulf Coast Region Board of Directors has named four new members: Tricia Engler, Miguel Lopez, Nicole Robinson Gauthier, and Kathy Tautenhahn. The American Heart Association is the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all.

“These four individuals will have an immediate impact on the work we do here in our region,” said Kellie Armstrong, Executive Director and Regional Vice President of the American Heart Association Gulf Coast Region. “With new board members always come fresh ideas, and I’m looking forward to working with the entire Board to fulfill the association’s mission of being a relentless force for the health of our community,” she continued.

Tricia Engler, MSN, RN, Director of Patient Care, Cath Lab/Neuro IR & Chest Pain Program for Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center, comes to the American Heart Association hoping to use her real-world healthcare experience to guide community strategy from what she is seeing as the need in her everyday work.

Miguel Lopez, President of the Montgomery County Hispanic Chamber suffered a stroke in 2014. He aims to use his ties to the Hispanic community to promote the American Heart Association’s newly launched culturally relevant Spanish language website devoted to stroke resources, DerrameCerebral.org.

Nicole Robinson Gauthier, Executive Director of the Lone Star College Foundation, is invested in nutrition security. As more colleges are launching pantries to ensure students have access to food, she hopes to help the Gulf Coast region lead the way to bridging the gap to food access. Her commitment is to truly elevate the American Heart Association’s work to not just ensure food security, but to ensure nutrition security.

Kathy Tautenhahn, President of Amazing Spaces Properties, is a past Heart Ball Chair and anxious to bring the American Heart Association’s hands-only CPR training to more people through elementary and secondary schools, businesses, and community collaborations.

For 100 years, the American Heart Association has saved and improved lives, pioneered scientific discovery and advocated for healthy public policies in communities across the country. These bold moves are fueled by our mission to be a relentless force for longer, healthier lives. They have helped transform our nation’s health and significantly reduce heart disease and stroke death rates.

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