Brenda Battle, RN

As senior vice president, Community Health Transformation, UChicago Medicine, Brenda Battle is responsible for designing and leading UCM’s community-health management strategy including developing and implementing coordinated, innovative healthcare solutions to address the needs of UChicago Medicine-focused populations and that of its surrounding communities. Her role unifies the resources and strategies of UCM and community to address health disparities. Brenda’s responsibility includes collaborating with medical and administrative leadership to foster innovation in UCM’s care delivery system by crafting care models that create an environment that promotes diversity, inclusion and equity.

Prior to joining the UChicago Medicine, Brenda was the director of the inaugural Center for Diversity and Cultural Competence for Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, where she oversaw programs to eliminate health disparities and to promote diversity, cultural competence and health literacy within Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine. Brenda served as vice president of government and community affairs for Medical Transportation Management Inc., overseeing the national and local presence of MTM as a benefits management organization serving Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries. She has more than 38 years of healthcare experience spanning public and population health.