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Prior to joining Ovation in 2006, Sally Benjamin Young was Vice President of Corporate Communications at Baxter International, where she led a global team responsible for all external and internal communications. She is a communications strategy expert with more than 25 years of experience managing award-winning healthcare marketing and communications programs for corporations, agencies and non-profits. Her years in the industry include pharmaceuticals, managed care, risk management and hospitals for such organizations as G.D. Searle & Co., Caremark International, Boots Pharmaceuticals and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She was named by PR Week magazine in 2000 as one of the nation's top 50 corporate healthcare public relations professionals and by Modern Healthcare magazine in 2002 as one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare. Ms. Young is past president of the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development of the American Hospital Association. She also serves as Vice President on the Board of Directors for CommunityHealth, a Chicago-based health clinic providing free quality care to the uninsured. | 