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ADVISORY
• J.P. Morgan Wealth Management has named Amy Reback as regional director for the Mountain region. She will lead financial advisors and market directors in Chase branches across Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and eastern Washington as part of the firm’s growth strategy. Reback has nearly 30 years of industry experience, most recently serving as chief executive director for the Global Equity Organization in Denver. Prior to that, spent two decades at Charles Schwab.
ASSOCIATIONS
• Marc Porter, distinguished professor of chemical engineering at the University of Utah, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, one of the highest honors awarded to academic inventors. The designation recognizes researchers whose work has led to practical technologies used outside the laboratory. Much of Porter’s recent work focuses on developing diagnostic tests that are faster, simpler and more affordable than traditional lab-based methods. Earlier research that he conducted for NASA helped develop tools to monitor water quality aboard the International Space Station. Porter joined the University of Utah in 2007 after training as a chemist and spending much of his career working across disciplines. His research has led to numerous patents and the creation of several startup companies that bring university research into practical use.
HEALTH CARE
• ARUP Laboratories, a Salt Lake City-based nonprofit reference laboratory, has named Adam Barker as president and chief operations officer of the company’s Reference Business Unit. Barker will oversee ARUP’s core business of providing a set of esoteric laboratory tests and related services to hospitals and health systems nationwide. Barker joined ARUP in 2010 as a medical microbiology fellow and has been COO since 2022. Before becoming COO, he was a medical director, associate director of research and development, director of R&D, and chief scientific officer. Barker has led platform consolidation efforts involving mass spectrometry, next-generation sequencing and molecular testing. He has worked with vendors to secure supply lines to optimize operational stability amid growth. The advanced automated processes Barker has helped establish support workflow improvements that reduce turnaround times to quickly get test results to clinicians and their patients. Barker’s appointment as Reference Business Unit president completes the leadership triumvirate of the multidivisional structure that ARUP began transitioning to in July 2023.