Newsroom

Media Team

Jill Chadwick

News Director

Jill Chadwick, News Director, Medical News Network, showing her Kansas City Chiefs spirit.
Jill understands the drive to “be” the best whether it’s on a playing field or in a newsroom.  She believes competition is healthy.  As News Director of the Medical News Network, she maintains the same high news and story-telling standards that earned her an Emmy® as Executive Producer of Investigative and Specials at KSHB, and an Edward R. Murrow Award as anchor for KOAM.
  • Office (913) 588-5013
  • Cell (913) 223-3974
  • Fax (913) 588-1225
  • Email jchadwick@kumc.edu
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Bob Hallinan

Executive Producer

Bob Hallinan, Executive Producer, Medical News Network, holding a big fish.
Bob is always fishing for a great story, and his 20 years as an award-winning TV news producer (Associated Press Best Newscast, KETV, Omaha and Regional Emmy Best Newscast, KMBC, Kansas City) have taught him that the best stories are about people. How handy to have a hospital full of people, most with great stories to tell, at his disposal!
  • Office (913) 588-7284
  • Cell (913)-481-7329
  • Fax (913) 588-1225
  • Email newsmedia@kumc.edu
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Cliff Erwin

Executive Technical Director

Cliff Erwin, Broadcast Studio Manager, Medical News Network, gowned up for the operating room, shooting video.
Cliff is known for his precision videotaping and editing.  He perfected those skills shooting sports and storm chasing. His ability to keep one eye on the 'ball' or the skies has served him well while keeping up with surgeons in the OR as well as other medical staff in a fast-paced academic hospital.
  • Office (913) 588-4389
  • Cell (417) 483-2487
  • Fax (913) 588-1225
  • Email cerwin2@kumc.edu
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Logan Blankenship

Executive Technical Director

Logan operates his camera and edits his videos with the skill of a surgeon which is ironic considering he never stepped foot into an OR until coming to the Medical News Network. It turns out he isn't the least bit squeamish and loves telling stories of people going from sick or injured to healthy and well.
  • Office 913-588-4387
  • Cell 913-271-5838
  • Fax (913) 588-1225
  • Email cblankenship@kumc.edu
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Jessica Lovell

Multi-media Journalist/Content Producer/Host of Morning Medical Update

Jessica Lovell, Multi-media Journalist, Medical News Network, on the set of "Take Ten."
Jessica joins the Medical News Network team after nearly 10 years in TV news. An Emmy®-nominated journalist, Jessica worked in several local news markets before heading West to the bright lights of Las Vegas where she worked as a host and anchor for the CBS and ABC affiliates. Family brought her back to the Midwest where she landed here telling stories from inside the health system.
  • Office (913) 588-5246
  • Cell (702) 334-6133
  • Fax (913) 588-1225
  • Email jlovell@kumc.edu
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Alexis Del Cid

Multi-media Journalist/Content Producer/Host of All Things Heart

Alexis Del Cid multi-tasking; pictured here water skiing and juggling at the same time.

Emmy® award winning news anchor, Alexis Del Cid, joined the Medical News Network team in September of 2021, after nearly 25 years as an anchor and reporter at radio stations and television stations across America. 

She is also active educating people about Alzheimer’s disease and sharing her family’s journey with Alzheimer’s Disease. Her father was diagnosed in 2019. Alexis honors her father's experience with the disease and that of her family in her blog. She has been shaped by his influence including her ability to juggle and water ski... at the same time.

  • Office 913-588-1441
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Alex Brown

Digital Content Producer

Alex Brown, Videographer and Editor, Medical News Network

Alex Brown is an Emmy® and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning cinematographer and editor. He spent nearly 2 decades working in TV newsrooms across the country before joining the health system. He is also wise in the ways of sourdough bread starter and is renowned for his pretzel rolls.


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  • Cell 913-202-9852
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  • Email abrown48@kumc.edu
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