Kimberly Russo, MS was appointed Chief Operating Officer of George Washington University Hospital effective April 1, 2009.
Prior to this appointment, Ms. Russo served the hospital as Associate Administrator since August 2006, and previously as Executive Director of Rehabilitation Services. She holds an MBA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, through a collaborative leadership program with Gallup, a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Rush University in Chicago, Illinois, and a Bachelor of Science in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology from Illinois State University.
Ms. Russo is a healthcare executive with 15 years of clinical and operational experience, and has a proven track record of exceptional results. Ms. Russo was recognized as an “Up and Comer Under 40” by Modern Healthcare and Becker's Hospital Review in 2010. She was also named by the Washington Business Journal as an honoree of "Women Who Mean Business" in 2010.