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The HR Business Partners provide strategic HR guidance for assigned client groups to ensure effective planning and implementation of key initiatives that affect the workforce. They provide counsel to ensure consistent application and integration of policies, procedures and practices and develop best practices to align with each area’s unique needs. Our HR Business Partner teams report to our Associate Vice Presidents.

HR Business Partners are embedded within their customer units to provide HR support and guidance within the context of that particular business unit. They accomplish this by being knowledgeable of the various HR disciplines as well as understanding the experiences, expectations and needs of their customer units.

Some of the ways HR Business Partners support campus and UK HealthCare areas include:

  • Provide HR expertise in the management of projects.
  • Proactively identify and communicate support required to remove barriers and identify creative solutions.
  • Facilitate communication between leaders and Human Resources to promote alignment and understanding of objectives and goals.
  • Provide senior leaders with timely and relevant information to support strategic decision making.

 

Campus

Name Title/role Phone Email
Catie Lasley AVP for HR Operations (859) 257-9186 catherine.lasley@uky.edu
Crystal Gabbard HR Business Partner Senior, President’s Areas (859) 218-5427 crystal.gabbard@uky.edu
Bill Verble HR Director HR Business Partners, Provost Area (859) 323-1601 bill.verble@uky.edu
Dan Gier HR Business Partner, Provost Areas (859) 257-8954 daniel.gier@uky.edu
Elizabeth Hillard HR Business Partner, College of Medicine (859) 218-2204 ehhill3@email.uky.edu
Jeff Sullivan HR Business Partner Senior, Research (859) 257-9630
Mieccia Samuels HR Business Partner, Research (859) 562-2989 Mieccia.Samuels@uky.edu
Zachary York HR Staffing Specialist, Research (859) 218-2151 zachary.york@uky.edu

UK HealthCare

Name Title/role Phone Email
Fredrick Martin AVP for Human Resources, UK HealthCare FredrickjMartin@uky.edu
Ann Stone HR Business Partner Senior, EVPHA Corporate (859) 323-1426 Ann.Stone@uky.edu
Jennifer Siguenza Director of Human Resource Operations for UK HealthCare (859) 257-1738 jennifer.siguenza@uky.edu
Reid Connelly HR Business Partner Senior, Ambulatory and Medical Group (859) 323-6800 reid.connelly@uky.edu
Alley Schwendeman HR Business Partner, Hospital Operations and IT (859) 562-2539 a.pearson@uky.edu
Lauren Burgess HR Business Partner, Nursing (859) 323-3840 Lauren.Burgess@uky.edu
Shyla Bourne HR Staffing Specialist, EVPHA Corporate (859) 562-2162 shyla.epling@uky.edu
Brian Coyne HR Staffing Specialist, Nursing (859) 562-2542 Brian.Coyne@uky.edu
Denise Blethen HR Staffing Specialist, Hospital Operations Denise.Blethen@uky.edu
Shannon Harris HR Staffing Specialist, Ambulatory and Medical Group (859) 562-0588 shannon.harris@uky.edu
Demita Stevenson HR Staffing Specialist, Nursing (859) 323-5285 demita.stevenson@uky.edu
Ariel Lucas HR Staffing Specialist, UK HealthCare IT (859) 562-2151 Ariel.McGuigan@uky.edu
Michael Millett HR Staffing Specialist, Ambulatory and Medical Group (859) 562-2540 michael.millett@uky.edu
Michelle Roy HR Staffing Specialist, Nursing (859) 562-2541 Michelle.Roy@uky.edu