Kathleen G. Bang was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Northwestern Memorial Foundation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare ("Northwestern"), an academic medical center, from February 2002 until her retirement in 2004. Prior to February 2002, Ms. Bang was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Northwestern. Ms. Bang joined Northwestern in 1986 and became Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in 1988. Ms. Bang also was Chair of the Governing Council for Metropolitan Hospitals of the American Hospital Association from January 1996 to December 1998, and Board member of the Illinois Hospital Association from 1995 through 2003 and served as Chair in 2002. Ms. Bang has been a member of the Covance Board since 1998.