WellStar Health System Promotes Two Executives

announced two executives, Bruce Dean and Tony Trupiano, have been promoted.    

Dean will add vice president of real estate to his current title of deputy general counsel for WellStar Health System. He has more than 30 years of real estate experience and has worked closely with WellStar’s real estate acquisitions since joining the system in 2007.

Prior to joining WellStar, Dean was a shareholder at the law firm Brock Clay in Marietta where he served as WellStar’s local counsel. He has also served as senior real estate counsel for Norfolk Southern Railway. He holds bachelor, master’s and law degrees from the University of Georgia and served as a captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps in Germany. Dean lives in East Cobb with his wife, Beth.

Tony Trupiano, who joined WellStar in 2009, has been promoted to senior vice president of supply chain and will now be responsible for all construction activities within the WellStar, in addition to his current responsibilities overseeing the system’s supply chain activities. 

Prior to joining WellStar, Trupiano served for more than 13 years in a similar role with SSM Health Care-St. Louis, and for 14 years in other health care supply chain leadership roles. He has both his undergraduate and master’s degree in business administration from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.   

Trupiano has been active in a number of community organizations and boards, including North Cobb Rotary, and is currently involved in building a medical clinic in Haiti. He and his wife, Gayle, have four grown children. 

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