Kelly A. Bownes is the President, CEO and founder of MedPlan Recruiting, Inc., a physician recruiting and medical staff planning firm located in Birmingham Alabama. Bownes works as a national recruiter and consultant assisting healthcare systems with recruiting efforts for practice positions and traditional hospitalist and/or outpatient care. MedPlan has a twenty year history of placing physicians in every specialty and subspecialty for hospitals and private practices in every county in the state of Alabama, the Southeast and the nation. Her company has a significant impact on metro, medium and rural size communities that would not be able to attract quality physicians without our assistance.

Growing up in a household dedicated to medicine, her father, a doctor, and mother, a nurse, she experienced first-hand the importance of quality health-care. Bownes received her undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama. She went on to receive a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and Masters Certificate in Gerontology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

As a testament to her success in her local Birmingham business community the Birmingham Business Journal voted her as the 2007 Rising Star at the Best in Business Awards.

Bownes is an active board member of many organizations including The Women’s Fund, Women’s Network Board of Directors, past president of the Women’s Forum and Hand-in-Paw. Kelly’s passion for care for the elderly has encouraged her participation in the boards of the UAB Palliative Care Center and the UAB Center for the Aging and to volunteer at St. Martin’s in the Pines Retirement Community.

She is a member of the 2007-2008 Leadership Birmingham class. Most recently, Bownes received an appointment from Lieutenant Governor Jim Folsom to the Women’s Health Steering Committee, Office of Women’s Health for the State of Alabama. Ms. Bownes will follow legislation that relate to women in Alabama and advise on those issues.