Siemens Healthineers names new VP of US MR business management

Siemens Healthineers announced this week that Jane Kilkenny is the company’s new vice president of U.S. magnetic resonance (MR) business management. She has been with the company since 2001.

Kilkenny previously served as the country business lead for diagnostic imaging for Great Britain and Ireland at Siemens. Before that, she was the MR business manager for Great Britain.

Kilkenny, who studied imaging at the University of Lancaster in the U.K., also has experience as an MR radiologic technologist.

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