Pew Charitable Trusts. Office of the President.

Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Rebecca W. Rimel received an RN degree from the University of Virginia in 1973. For the next two years she worked as an emergency room nurse. In 1975 she was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia Medical School. The first nurse to hold a faculty position at the university's medical school, Rimel published widely on the treatment of head injury and trauma.

In 1982 she participated in a Kellogg foundation fellowship program aimed at equipping emerging leaders with the skills to deal with an array of global problems. After earning an MBA from James Madison University the following year, she left Virginia to become a program manager in health with The Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Started by the heirs of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew in 1948, The Pew Charitable Trusts consisted of seven separate trusts administered by The Glenmede Trust Company. Rimel earned rapid promotions to assistant vice president, vice president responsible for funding in the health sciences and, executive director and, in 1994, to president and CEO.

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