PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Safeway Inc. announced today that Dr. Kent Bradley has joined the company as Chief Medical Officer, a newly created position focused on further enhancing and building Safeway's reputation as a health care innovator. He will have overall responsibility for developing and guiding the company's extensive portfolio of health care programs including its employee and consumer wellness and prevention activities. Dr. Bradley will also be assisting the company's Safeway Health Inc. subsidiary on a range of business initiatives.
"We are pleased and honored to have someone of Dr. Bradley's caliber and reputation joining the Safeway team," said Safeway Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Steve Burd. "His well-recognized expertise in health and wellness and his proven track record leading large groups of professionals in a range of challenging settings will bring immediate and important benefits to our company." Dr. Bradley will report directly to Larree Renda, Executive Vice President and President of Safeway Health.
Dr. Bradley comes to Safeway after a distinguished career in the U.S. Army, where he earned the rank of Colonel and served in a wide of range assignments including Chief Medical Officer (CMO) from the Infantry Division level to CMO-Executive Director for TRICARE-Europe, which supported more than 250,000 Department of Defense beneficiaries in over 95 countries throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Prior to that, Dr. Bradley served in Iraq as Deputy Commander of the 30th Medical Brigade. Earlier in his career, Dr. Bradley led health teams supporting humanitarian and peace keeping efforts in Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Panama, Thailand and Rwanda. After retiring from the military in 2008, Kent joined as a Partner with Martin, Blanck & Associates, a health services consulting firm for clients serving federal and state delivery systems while returning to college to earn his MBA.
Dr. Bradley is a West Point graduate and holds a Masters of Public Health from the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health and a medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He earned his MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.
Safeway Inc. is a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America, based on sales. The company operates 1,687 stores in the United States and western Canada and had annual sales of $41.1 billion in 2010. The company's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SWY.
Contact: Brian Dowling – 925-467-3787, [email protected]
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