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20 décembre, 2006 13:0 |
Local firm hires Bush health official
By Bruce Japsen
Tribune staff reporter
Published December 20, 2006, 12:02 PM CST
The Bush administration's top health official from the Midwest will join Chicago-based public affairs and media consulting firm Res Publica Group as it expands its services to the health-care industry.
The firm today said it has hired Douglas O'Brien, 43, the Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as a vice president. O'Brien will resign his government post effective Jan. 8, 2007.
In a statement, Res Publica said O'Brien will add "strong experience in the areas of issue management and policy development."
In particular, O'Brien will "provide strategic counsel to the firm's hospital and health care services clients on a wide range of issues including financing, regulation, human resources and community affairs," the statement said.
It's the latest effort by Res Publica to expand its communications presence in the health-care industry.
The firm already has several health-care clients and includes such executives as former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar and Dennis Culloton, who was spokesman for former Gov. George Ryan and worked as media relations executive for the state's largest health insurance company, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois.
