August 23 , 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Tom Rosenberger, APR, Communications Department
(513) 569-5260

CONTACT: Cindy Starr, MSJ Communications Department
(513) 584-2214

Senior Business Manager Ping Jen and Communications Specialist Brooke Cribbs Join Mayfield Clinic

CINCINNATI, Ohio – Ping Jen, M.B.A., has joined the Mayfield Clinic as senior business manager in the University of Cincinnati Department of Neurosurgery. Mr. Jen comes to Mayfield from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he was a financial systems manager at the Health Science Center Office of Systems and Finance. Mr. Jen, who received his M.B.A. in finance at Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1995 and a second MBA in management information systems from the University of Notre Dame in 1996, is responsible for managing grant development and submissions and for developing a clinical database.

Mayfield also announces the hiring of Brooke Cribbs as Public Relations/Events Specialist in the Communications Department. Ms. Cribbs comes to Mayfield from Hospice of Northern Kentucky, where she promoted the agency and its services to medical professionals in hospitals, long-term care facilities and physician offices. She graduated from Ohio University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in communications management.

The Mayfield Clinic is recognized as one of the nation's leading physician organizations for clinical care, education and research of the spine and brain. The group includes 16 neurosurgeons and treats 20,000 patients from 35 states and a dozen countries in a typical year. Mayfield's neurosurgeons are active participants in important clinical trials and have pioneered surgical procedures and instrumentation that have revolutionized the medical art of neurosurgery for brain tumors and neurovascular diseases and disorders.

Mayfield, which has more than 100 employees, is affiliated with the Mayfield Spine Institute, the Mayfield Imaging Center, the Precision Radiotherapy Center, and the UC Department of Neurosurgery. Mayfield is also part of UC Physicians and The Neuroscience Institute.