VP for Communication & Member Engagement
Mississippi Hospital Association
Shawn Rossi, DHA, FACHE, serves as the vice president of communication and member engagement for the Mississippi Hospital Association. She is a board-certified Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency, the Mississippi Public Health Association, ACHE of Mississippi, and the Mississippi Society of Association Executives. She is a member of the University of Southern Mississippi’s (USM’s) Community Health Advisory Board, the Mississippi Early Childhood Investment Council, and the American College of Healthcare Executive's Management Series Editorial Board.
Dr. Rossi holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in English from USM and a doctorate in health administration (DHA) from the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). She was named a Top 40 Under 40 by the Mississippi Business Journal in 2008. In 2014, she was issued the Senior Practitioner Award by the Southern Public Relations Federation. Dr. Rossi won the American College of Healthcare Executives Regent's Award for Mississippi in 2017.
As a doctoral student at UMMC, she won the DHA Outstanding Student Award in 2021 and First Place in the DHA category during the 2021 UMMC SHRP Research Day. Dr. Rossi’s research focuses on community health improvement, investment, and collaboration. I
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