Full Name
Kristine Russell
Title
Publisher
Organization
Healthcare Purchasing News
Speaker Bio

As the former owner, publisher, and executive editor of multiple healthcare publications in healthcare supply chain, clinical laboratory and diagnostics, and healthcare IT platform, I focused on the coverage and evaluation of products and services as well as processes and regulation. Kristine is now Publisher Emeritus and continue to be passionate about ways to better our healthcare delivery systems. That includes research projects on global healthcare systems operations and evaluating quality control workflows and processes and ongoing education. Kristine continues to work with organizations that could benefit from her skills.

Kristine joined Endeavor Business Media in 2018 after selling her companies to them. Her roles with Endeavor included SVP Special Projects to the Endeavor Management Team, Group Publisher Healthcare Group and Executive Vice President/Executive Editor. Kristine was integral in creating Healthcare events for EBM: Lab Directors Summit, Infection Prevention Directors Summit and the OR Directors Summit. She lead the Healthcare editorial and sales teams as well as support teams in IT, graphics, marketing and audience development. She was also responsible for budgeting and finance for the Healthcare Group.

Prior to joining Endeavor, Kristine was the President/Executive Editor/Owner of KSR Publishing, Inc. and NP Communications, LLC for 18 years for 6 National B2B jounals and web content provider for webinars, newsletters, forums and podcasts. Prior to that I was VP Operations & Acquisitions over 13 publications and Group Publisher of the Healthcare group for 25 years.

Kristine Russell