At the annual Washington University Health Administration Program (HAP) Alumni Reception held in Chicago, IL on March 13th, 2013, Michael Covert, FACHE, BU’70, HAP ’72, President and CEO, Palomar Health in California, received the Distinguished Alumni Award.

In 2011, the HAP Program Alumni Association agreed to an affiliation with Olin Business School to help promote health care management education to undergraduate and graduate business students. The HAP Program was part of the WU School of Medicine until 2007 when it was closed.

Michael Covert is pictured above with Mark Brostoff, HAP ’82, associate dean and director, Weston Career Center.