Mayo Clinic young exec named 'Up and Comer' by Modern Healthcare

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Breeann Robinson, vice chair, Planning Services, at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, has been named a 2006 "Up and Comer" by Modern Healthcare magazine, considered the top professional journal in the field. Only 12 health care executives in the nation receive this honor. The award was announced in the Sept. 18, 2006, edition of the magazine.

To qualify for the award, nominees must be age 40 or younger and must be recognized as "young stars" in the health care field. In her role as vice chair, Planning Services, she facilitates Mayo Clinic's strategic, operational and business planning processes across all three Mayo sites - Arizona, Rochester, Minn., and Jacksonville, Fla.

Breeann, 31, earned a B.A. in English at the University of Missouri - Columbia, in 1996 and a Master of Health Administration degree, also from the University of Missouri - Columbia, in 1998. She joined Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., as an administrative trainee in 1998 and rapidly moved to other key positions at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

In her nomination, Breeann was described by Victor F. Trastek, M.D., CEO of Mayo Clinic in Arizona, as "a catalyst and critical success factor in developing Mayo's strategic vision and plan."

Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice in the world. As a leading academic medical center in the Southwest, Mayo Clinic focuses on providing specialty and surgical care in more than 65 disciplines at its outpatient facility in north Scottsdale and at Mayo Clinic Hospital. The 208-licensed bed hospital is located at 56th Street and Mayo Boulevard (north of Bell Road) in northeast Phoenix, and provides inpatient care to support the medical and surgical specialties of the clinic, which is located at 134th Street and Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale.

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