{"id":11796,"date":"2024-08-02T11:14:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11796"},"modified":"2024-08-02T11:14:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:14:47","slug":"turk-89-named-lifeward-board-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2024\/08\/02\/turk-89-named-lifeward-board-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Turk \u201989 named Lifeward board chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/Turk-89.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/Turk-89-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/Turk-89-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/Turk-89-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/Turk-89.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joseph Turk &#8217;89<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Joseph Turk \u201989 has been named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbjournal.com\/article\/marlborough-exoskeleton-maker-appoints-fresenius-executive-to-board-chair\">chairman of the board of directors<\/a> of Lifeward, a manufacturer of mobility assistive devices. He has served on the board since 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turk serves as the executive vice president of global home therapies at Fresenius Medical Care, a German company with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, where he oversees the global home therapies businesses and leads sales and commercials operations, according to his LinkedIn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While at Wabash he majored in economics and minored in chemistry, was a member of Beta Theta Pi, swim team, Sphinx Club and the Bachelor. He is also in the Wabash Athletics Hall of Fame, and is a Trustee of Wabash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Turk \u201989 has been named chairman of the board of directors of Lifeward, a manufacturer of mobility assistive devices. He has served on the board since 2022. Turk serves as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":11797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/Turk-89.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11798,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11796\/revisions\/11798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}