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Dr. Claudia Coplein has been appointed as the first Chief Medical Officer of Tyson Foods.  She will report to Johanna Soderstrom, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer and will be responsible for the health of all Company personnel.

Dr. Coplein earned a DO degree from New York Institute of Technology followed by a law degree from the University of Connecticut and Master’s degrees in Public Health, Business Administration from Colorado State University and an Environmental Management degree from Yale.

Her experience includes serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force and for the past 20 years has held leadership positions at MassMutual, MetLife and the General Electric Company.

The first challenge faced by Dr. Coplein will involve the installation of Marathon Health clinics in seven Tyson locations. During 2020 Tyson Foods invested $540 million to combat the coronavirus epidemic comprising additional worker pay and benefits, installation of workstation dividers and employing social distancing monitors in addition to increasing the resources of the Company medical team.