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| Brian Faith |
Brian Faith will join City of Hope, the biomedical research center for diabetes and cancer treatment and care, as VP-communications on March 1 after a more than two-year run as VP-corporate communications at Walgreens.
His role is to more broadly tell the story of the positive impact the Duarte, CA-based organization has on the patients, families, caregivers and communities that it serves.
Faith will handle thought leadership, issues, media relations, newsroom management, internal communications and social media.
Prior to Walgreens, he was managing director at Allstate, VP-media & external relations at Fannie Mae, VP-public affairs at Widmeyer Communications and press secretary for Sen. Dick Durban and Congressman Jim Bacchus.
City of Hope was founded in 1913.
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