---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-009903"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HSTM"
cik: "0001095565"
company_name: "HEALTHSTREAM INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T02:53:57.226310+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director William W. Stead to retire from HealthStream board at annual meeting

## Summary
- Stead notified company on March 24, 2025; effective at 2025 annual stockholders meeting.
- He is a Class I director and will not stand for re-election.
- Retirement not due to any disagreement with HealthStream.
- No replacement for the departing director has been announced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-009903
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HSTM
- cik: 0001095565
- company_name: HEALTHSTREAM INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1095565/000143774925009903/0001437749-25-009903-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1095565/000143774925009903/hstm20250325_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-009903
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-009903.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-009903.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  William W. Stead departed as Director at HEALTHSTREAM INC.
  - Action: not stand for re-election and retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 24, 2025, William W. Stead, M.D. notified HealthStream, Inc. (the “Company”) that he has decided not to stand for re-election to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) as a Class I director at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders and to retire from service on the Board effective concurrently with this annual meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1095565/000143774925009903/0001437749-25-009903-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.