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New CEO for the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados
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Board of Directors of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados has
announced the appointment of Ms. René Brathwaite as Chief Executive Officer
with effect from 1st July 2009. She succeeds Adrian Randall who retires from
the Foundation at the end of August 2009, after five years at the helm of
the leading health NGO.
The organization was founded in 1985 as the Heart Foundation of Barbados,
and included stroke in 2006 to become the Heart & Stroke Foundation of
Barbados. Its programmes include the provision of training in Emergency
Cardiac Care for persons in the medical profession, also for the general
public, as well as specific monitored rehabilitation in its Cardiovascular
Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation programme for persons who have had
heart surgery, a heart attack, heart failure, a stroke or are at risk of
those conditions. The Foundation also organizes health fairs and other
outreach programmes that educate and inform young persons and adults about
the benefits of healthy living.
Ms. Brathwaite is a businesswoman who brings over 13 years of strong
marketing, business development and general management experience to her new
role as CEO of the HSFB. A Jamaican trained Pharmacist and Pharmacologist,
her working career began in Jamaica on completion of her studies with the
International Pharmaceutical Company ROCHE, where she was introduced to the
field of marketing and had the opportunity to work both in Jamaica and
Bermuda. René returned to Barbados towards the end of 1997 to take up a
management position with the French Pharmaceutical company, Servier, at
their Caribbean Head Office and this was where her passion for marketing and
business development on an International level was developed. She has worked
extensively throughout the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe with various
medical fraternities from the pharmaceutical level in such areas as
Cardiology, Neurology, Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Dermatology, and
Orthopedics, to name a few.
In 2001 feeling the need to contribute to her Country in a more significant
way, René accepted the offer to become the Aide/Advisor to the then Minister
of Health. Here she had responsibility to develop, lead and execute the
production of all marketing and community development strategies. She also
sought to advise the former Minister on a strategic vision for the Ministry
of Health and all of its departments, to elevate the profile of the Ministry
throughout the wider community, and to advise on business process
optimization and reengineering in the day to day management of the Ministry
and all of its departments as well as with external agencies.
A past student of Queen’s College, UWI and The University of Technology
(Jamaica), René is also a sports and fitness enthusiast, having represented
all of these institutions in various sporting disciplines. Her most
outstanding contributions have been to Barbados in Lawn Tennis and Hockey at
both the junior and senior level. She is the former Junior Vice-President of
the Pickwick Cricket Club and has represented that club for about 25 years
at the highest level in hockey.
René also holds an MBA degree from the University of Leicester (UK) and is
looking forward to her mission at the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados
to “keep people heart healthy and to reduce suffering and death from heart
disease and stroke.”
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