Brendan Mullen

Brendan Mullen is Senior Executive Vice President of the American College of Cardiology, overseeing marketing and communications, business development, digital and enterprise strategy, and international affairs and science and quality.

Mullen originally joined the ACC in 2008 as director of strategic planning and later was the senior director for the PINNACLE Registry. During his time at the ACC, Mullen has been involved in the conception and development of the College's positions and programs relating to health care reform, payment reform and quality improvement. Mullen has written on a broad range of topics in health care but is most proud of the editorials and articles in the Annals of Internal Medicine and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that he co-authored with ACC members. Before joining the ACC, Mullen worked for nearly 10 years as a consultant for the Advisory Board Company, a health care research and consulting firm largely focused on hospital and health system strategy and operations. He also served as vice president of Programs and Strategy at the National Quality Forum.