Ms. Ebken serves as senior vice president and chief marketing and communications officer at Cincinnati Children’s, where she is responsible for the advancement and protection of one of the nation’s premier children’s hospital brands, a role she has shaped over more than two decades with the organization. Her accomplishments include driving the development and implementation of the organization’s long-range strategic plans, spearheading business plans that have fueled international growth, and building the marketing and communications function. Shaping that function included a leadership restructure, digital-first investment, increased crisis and executive communication capability, and the formation of new culture communications, patient and family communications, and research and clinician communication functions. Ms. Ebken also serves as chief of staff to the president and CEO, a dual role she has held for 11 years that gives her unique insight across the organization. She was recently chosen to represent Cincinnati Children’s in “Leadership Cincinnati,” an exclusive year-long program for city executives. Cincinnati Children’s has been ranked one of the nation’s best children’s hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for more than 15 years, including earning the No. 1 rank in pediatric cancer care, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, and diabetes and endocrinology in 2025. The National Institutes of Health places Cincinnati Children’s at No. 3 among all children’s hospitals and medical school pediatric departments for research funding.
