Frances M. Sheehan
Frances M. Sheehan currently serves as the President and CEO
of the Brandywine Health Foundation in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
Prior to coming to the foundation, Ms. Sheehan served as the
CEO of Planned Parenthood of Chester County from 1990-2002,
where she provided staff leadership for a successful $3.15
million capital and endowment drive, and as one of the founding
members and President of the Board of Directors of the Coatesville
Center for Community Health, a collaborative effort to improve
health care delivery through the co-location of services in
a new headquarters building in the heart of Coatesville.
Frances serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Delaware
Valley Grantmakers. She is also a member of the Boards of Directors
of Regional Housing Legal Services and the Family Planning
Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
She has also served on the Steering Committee of the Healthy
Communities Partnership of Chester County, was a founder and
Advisory Board member of the Maternal and Child Health Consortium,
served on the Advisory Board of Community Volunteers in Medicine,
and is a founding member and former commissioner of the Chester
County Women's Commission.
In December 2007, she was named a Woman of Distinction by
the Philadelphia Business Journal, after receiving the Chester
County Chamber of Business & Industry’s Robert Thompson
Citizenship Award in April 2007. In 2002, she received the
March of Dimes' Chester County Woman of Achievement in the
Field of Health Award.
Frances received her B.A. with Honors in History from Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Connecticut, and her M.B.A. from Temple
University's Fox School of Business's Executive Program. She
is a Certified Fund Raising Executive through the Association
of Fund Raising Professionals.
Born in England, Frances became a U.S. citizen at the age
of 13. Currently, she resides in Swarthmore with her husband,
Dr. Ricardo Gelman, a physician in the Emergency Department
at The Chester County Hospital, and their two children, Julia
and Russell. She enjoys reading, traveling, exercising, hiking,
biking, and spending time with her family. |
