File #: 17-3714    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Consent Calendar Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 6/5/2017 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 6/6/2017 Final action: 6/6/2017
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION HONORING MARK E. PEYSAKHOVICH ON THE OCCASION OF HIS DEPARTURE FROM AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION WHEREAS, Mark E. Peysakhovich will be leaving the American Heart Association on June 30, 2017; and WHEREAS, Mark E. Peysakhovich has dutifully served the American Heart Association for more than eighteen years. In those years, he served with distinction and earned the respect and affection of his fellow employees, the patients and volunteers; and WHEREAS, throughout his eighteen years at the American Heart Association, Mark E. Peysakhovich has served the organization in multiple ways. During his time at the AHA, he focused on health prevention initiatives and ensuring a quality system of care for cardiac and stroke patients in Illinois. He was a member of the Illinois Alliance to Prevent Obesity (IAPO) Leadership Committee, Co-chair of the Childhood Nutrition and Physical Activity in Educational Settings workgroup of IAPO, Co-chair of the State Toba...
Sponsors: LARRY SUFFREDIN, JOHN P. DALEY
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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

A RESOLUTION HONORING MARK E. PEYSAKHOVICH ON THE OCCASION OF HIS DEPARTURE FROM AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION

WHEREAS, Mark E. Peysakhovich will be leaving the American Heart Association on June 30, 2017; and

WHEREAS, Mark E. Peysakhovich has dutifully served the American Heart Association for more than eighteen years. In those years, he served with distinction and earned the respect and affection of his fellow employees, the patients and volunteers; and

WHEREAS, throughout his eighteen years at the American Heart Association, Mark E. Peysakhovich has served the organization in multiple ways. During his time at the AHA, he focused on health prevention initiatives and ensuring a quality system of care for cardiac and stroke patients in Illinois. He was a member of the Illinois Alliance to Prevent Obesity (IAPO) Leadership Committee, Co-chair of the Childhood Nutrition and Physical Activity in Educational Settings workgroup of IAPO, Co-chair of the State Tobacco Workgroup Prevention Committee, Founding member of Stroke Survivors Empower Each Other and is currently a Board member of genHkids, Mentor at Matter Chicago & Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago, among many other ventures; and

WHEREAS, in his role as Senior Director of Government Relations his many accomplishments include; making Illinois a healthier place to live, work and play with successful passage of Smoke Free Illinois, defending the health of our kids by proactively working for and protecting daily physical education for all students across Illinois, limiting access of tobacco by raising the price of those products in the state of Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago where cigarettes are the highest price in the nation, ensuring a seamless chain-of-survival for cardiac arrest victims by requiring AEDs in public places including schools and gyms and requiring that all high school students in Illinois are trained i...

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