Kurt D. Newman, M.D. has been a Director of the Company since July 2025. Dr. Newman served on the Board of Directors and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Children's National Hospital, Washington, D.C., from 2011 through June 2023. Dr. Newman joined Children’s National Hospital as a surgical fellow in 1984, following a general surgery residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and became Surgeon-in-Chief and Senior Vice President for the Joseph E. Robert, Jr. Center for Surgical Care in 2003. He was instrumental in developing the vision and was the founding Vice President for the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children’s National. Dr. Newman is Professor Emeritus of Surgery and Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is the author of a 2017 medical memoir, Healing Children: A Surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine. Dr. Newman received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine. In 2023, he was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Duke University School of Medicine. In 2021, Dr. Newman received the CEO of the Year award from the Washington Business Journal. Dr. Newman was also inducted into the Washington Business Hall of Fame in 2023. In 2024, Dr. Newman was awarded the HX24 Lifetime Achievement Award by Press Ganey.