Hannover Life Reassurance Company of America (Hannover Re US) has announced the appointment of Dr. Elena Strunk as Vice President, Medical Director.
In her new role, Dr. Strunk will help advance Hannover Re’s underwriting and digital transformation initiatives, lead efforts to modernise medical assessment practices to reflect evolving medical knowledge, and strengthen the company’s medical oversight and governance capabilities.
She brings more than a decade of experience in academic Emergency Medicine.
She has also held roles with two leading insurance carriers, where she played a key role in training and developing underwriting and claims staff, while contributing to the development and optimisation of underwriting guidelines and initiatives to enhance underwriting efficiency.
Most recently, Dr. Strunk served as an Emergency Medicine Physician at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Previously, she was Corporate Vice President, Medical Director at New York Life Insurance Company.
Susan Mayer, Vice President and Chief Underwriter at Hannover Re US, said, “Dr. Strunk brings a broad base of experience across both clinical practice and the insurance industry, with background supporting individual and group life underwriting and claims management. Her leadership will be instrumental in advancing more informed, data‑driven underwriting decisions.”
