Edward, Elmhurst Memorial health system names VPs

The health system created by the merger of Edward Hospital & Health Services and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare has appointed three members to its leadership team – Brian P. Davis, System Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer; Annette Kenney, System Vice President of Strategy & Business Development and Susan Mitchell, System Executive Vice President of Human Resources.

Davis, a resident of LaGrange, has more than 25 years of communications and marketing experience.  He joined Edward in 1998 and has overseen government relations and marketing – including advertising, customer relationship management, media relations, health promotions and wellness initiatives, e-health strategy, corporate branding, internal communications, publications and crisis communications.

Davis serves on the Plainfield Advisory Task Force on Economic Development and the Advisory Board for the DuPage County FORWARD initiative to fight childhood obesity.  He is also a former board member of the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce, and former adjunct instructor at Lewis University in Romeoville.

Previously, Davis served for seven years as Vice President at Golin/Harris Communications, an international communications firm based in Chicago, where he consulted with Ronald McDonald House Charities International.  He also served five years at Hill & Knowlton, Inc. as a consultant to Kraft, Quaker Oats and other consumer goods clients.  Davis graduated cum laude from the School of Journalism at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

Kenney, a resident of Naperville, has more than 25 years of healthcare experience as a provider, consultant and senior hospital administrator.  After practicing for several years as a Registered Physical Therapist, she received her Master of Public Health degree in Health Services Administration and Epidemiology from Yale University.

Kenney developed her early career on the east coast, first as a consultant for National Capital Systems, Inc. in Washington, D.C. and Arthur D. Little, Inc. in Massachusetts.  She was instrumental in establishing the first planning function at Children’s Hospital Boston, and proceeded to senior management positions overseeing strategic planning, marketing and physician strategy and recruitment at St. Anne’s Hospital and at Jordan Health System in Massachusetts.

After moving to the Chicago area, she established an independent consulting practice with a focus on strategic planning, business development and physician network development.  Kenney also serves on the board of directors of several community and professional organizations.

Mitchell, a resident of Wheaton, was previously with Tribune Company where she was a Corporate Officer and held various positions in Human Resources the past 13 years, most recently as Vice President.  Prior to joining Tribune, Mitchell was Regional Vice President of Pro Staff Staffing Services, Regional Vice President of Kelly Services and Area Vice President of Adia Personnel in New York.

She is on the boards of DuPage County’s Family Shelter Service and BioTechLogic, and is a member of the New York University Tisch Parents’ Council and Society for Human Resources Executives.  Mitchell received her Bachelor’s degree from Millikin University in Decatur, Ill.

The merger of Edward Hospital & Health Services and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare creates one of the larger integrated health systems in Illinois, comprised of three hospitals – Edward, Elmhurst Memorial and Linden Oaks at Edward, a behavioral health facility – with revenues of about $1 billion and more than 50 outpatient locations across a service area of 1.7 million residents in the west and southwest suburbs of Chicago.  The system employs nearly 7,700, has more than 1,680 physicians on staff and 1,700 volunteers.