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Penny Wheeler, MD, chief clinical officer (CCO) of Allina Hospitals & Clinics, leads Allina's clinical quality and improvement agenda by collaborating with medical staffs, the Allina Board of Directors' Physician Governance Council and medical directors. She is responsible for ensuring best-of-practice approaches, ongoing innovation and excellence in care, and supporting the development and retention of effective clinicians.
A board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist, Wheeler has served patients at Women's Health Consultants in Minneapolis and taught as an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Minnesota. She has served as president of Abbott Northwestern Hospital's medical staff, as chairperson and vice-chairperson of the hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department and on numerous committees.
Prior to assuming the position of CCO in June 2006, Wheeler served on the Allina Hospitals & Clinics Board of Directors, where she led the Quality Committee.
Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Minnesota, and a doctorate of medicine degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. | 