Terry Leach ’85 has been named director of the UC Center for Health Quality and Innovation. She was interim executive director of the center, which supports innovations at the UC health campuses that can transform the way Californians’ health needs are addressed, since it opened in October. Leach spent eight years working on health policy, and has taught the subject at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. As a lawyer, she spent several years representing hospitals and medical staffs. Leach was also a public health nurse in Spanish-speaking communities in California’s Central Valley, helping patients with chronic diseases learn how to care for themselves at home.