Leadership

James A. Kingsbury, President and CEO

James A. (Jim) Kingsbury, FACHE, was appointed as UC Health’s first President and Chief Executive Officer in July of 2010.

Mr. Kingsbury has very deep roots in Cincinnati and academic medicine, and has a long and distinguished career running complex health systems and hospitals.

In many respects, this is a welcome home for Mr. Kingsbury: he served as the Executive Director and Senior Vice President of UC Health University Hospital from 2004 until 2008, at which point he left for the United Arab Emirates, where he served as CEO of University Hospital-Dubai and the Interim CEO of the Al Maktoum Academic Medical Center, a Harvard University-affiliated academic medical center also located in Dubai.

In these executive leadership roles, Mr. Kingsbury was primarily responsible for the planning and implementation of the construction, leadership, development, staffing, opening and operations of the University Hospital-Dubai, a 400-bed tertiary teaching and research hospital also affiliated with Harvard University. As Interim CEO of the academic medical center, he headed the University Hospital-Dubai, the Harvard Medical School Dubai Center, the Dubai Harvard Foundation and the Boston University Institute for Dental Research & Education.

Before serving as chief executive of Cincinnati’s University Hospital, Mr. Kingsbury served as the chief executive of the Fort Hamilton Hospital from 1998 to 2004, and as the President and CEO of the Fort Hamilton Healthcare Corporation from 1987 to 2004. He also served previously as the President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association Health Care Group Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri and the President and CEO of the Des Moines General Hospital. He began his hospital career as Assistant, Associate and Acting Administrator of the University of Nebraska Medical center in Omaha.

Mr. Kingsbury has a Master of Public Health and Hospital Administration from the University of California, Berkley, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of South Dakota. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, a past chair of the Ohio Hospital Association, past chair of the Greater Cincinnati Health Council, a member of the American Hospital Association’s Regional 5 Advisory Board and was a Greater Cincinnati Greater Cincinnati Health Care Hero in 2003. He also serves on a variety of community boards and is active in a variety of church and community activities. He has been married to his spouse, Gwen, for 43 years.

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