WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ Kristine Brown, director of Public Relations for Barnabas Health will be speaking at PRSSA’s Speaker Series on Wednesday, October 5, at 3:00 pm in room 234 of the Plangere Center.
Barnabas Health is the state’s largest health care system, comprised of six acute care hospitals. Locally those hospitals include Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, Kimball Medical Center in Lakewood and Community Medical Center in Toms River.
Brown received her undergraduate degree in Communications with a concentration in PR and Journalism from Monmouth University in 1995. She returned to the University and earned her master’s degree in Corporate and Public Communication in 1999.
Brown began her career as a reporter for the Asbury Park Press before being hired by Community Medical Center as a Public Relations Specialist. She also spent two years working as the director of Communications at Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, NJ, before returning to her current position at Barnabas Health eight years ago.
In her current position Kristine is responsible for the public relations, media relations, crisis communications, internal and external communications and social media activities for the hospitals she represents. She is a member of the PRSA and the Jersey Shore Public Relations and Advertising Association.
The PRSSA bio-monthly Speaker Series was instituted in 2009 to provide networking opportunities for public relations students and professionals. To stay up to date about who is speaking when follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/speakerseries. For more information about the speaker series or Monmouth’s PRSSA Chapter go to monmouth.edu/prssa or contact Amanda Erdmann, Communication Director, at s0756510@monmouth.edu, or Dr. Shelia McAllister Spooner, Faculty Advisor, at smcallis@monmouth.edu.
