Brenda Scisson is set to become executive director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Foundation Fund, overseeing all fundraising activities for the institute.
Scisson begins work at the fund on Aug. 22.
Scisson has 37 years of experience as a public relations and marketing professional. She was most recently worked 9 years at Stone Ward, a Little Rock advertising, marketing and public relations firm, first as director of public relations and later as public relations counselor.
She is also a War Memorial Stadium commissioner and worked on the stadium’s $16 million renovation.
Before working at Stone Ward, Scisson spent about three years as senior vice president and director of marketing and public relations at Metropolitan National Bank of Little Rock.
From 1977-1999, she was at Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods, another Little Rock advertising agency. She was the first woman in the agency’s history to be elected executive vice president and a member of the firm’s executive committee.
The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at UAMS is the state’s only cancer academic research center.
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