Our Employees
Frederick D. Hobby, MA
President & CEO
E-Mail: fhobby@aha.org
Phone: (312) 422-2630
Fred Hobby joined the Institute for Diversity in Health Management (Institute) as president and CEO in 2005 with more than 25 years of hospital experience in three states and six systems. Fred will lead the Institute into its second decade of service, developing tools and resources to enhance diversity in our nation’s hospitals, and helping health care organizations with diversity activities.
Fred began his hospital administration career with Humana, Inc. inLouisville, KY after serving 4 years as the Executive of the City’s Affirmative Action Department and 3 years on the faculty of the University of Louisville.
Before joining the Institute, Fred spent 10 years with the Greenville (SC) Hospital System (GHS), a 1,086-bed acute care teaching hospital system. As administrator and chief diversity officer at GHS, he developed and implemented a system-wide diversity initiative that is nationally recognized for its comprehensiveness and success. Its components include diversity training and education for the system’s 7,200 employees as well as an extensive language interpretation center to better serve patients who speak a language other than English. The GHS Language Center was the first recipient of a letter from OCR recognizing its’ compliance with the Federal LEP Guidelines.
Fred received a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Kentucky State University in Frankfort, KY, and a master’s degree in sociology from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining GHS, Fred served as a clinical administrator with the Portsmouth (VA) General Hospital and is a former CEO of the Newport News General Hospital.
He is a frequent guest speaker on diversity and featured at a number of prestigious national conferences. In 1999, he was named “Senior Executive of the Year” by the National Association for Health Services Executives. Fred was named to Modern Healthcares’ 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare in 2006 and 2007, and a cover story in the 2006 Winter issue of HR Pulse, the official publication of the American Society for Healthcare Human Administration.
Fred is married to Patricia King-Hobby and they have three children: twins, Brian and Ryan and daughter, Ashley.
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Elaine Johnson
Executive Assistant
E-mail: ejohnson@aha.org
Phone: (312) 422-2630
Kelly Redmond, MBA
Director of Operations
E-Mail: kredmond@aha.org
Phone (312) 422-2692
Zachary Benjamin, MA Pamela Janniere, MBA
Education Program Specialist Membership Program Specialist
E-mail: zbenjamin@aha.org E-mail: pjanniere@aha.org
Phone: (312) 422-2658 Phone: (312) 422-2691
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