Brandon Szuminsky, Phd, MBa
Communications Professional, PRofessor, Journalist
Brandon Szuminsky is a Senior Manager at UPMC, part of the Public Relations team serving the health care system’s 92,000 employees at more than 40 hospitals. Szuminsky provides communications support for clinical care delivery clients who work at the patient's bedside, covering infection prevention, patient safety, quality improvement, COVID-19 and more.
From 2017-2020, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Baldwin Wallace University, where he taught journalism, media literacy and media production courses and is the faculty advisor to the student newspaper, The Exponent.
Before joining Baldwin Wallace, Szuminsky was an instructor of communication at Waynesburg University for eight years, where he guided student journalists at The Yellow Jacket to more than 55 regional, state and national journalism awards.
He received the Lucas D. Hathaway Award for Teaching Excellence from Waynesburg University in 2012 and following his first year at Baldwin Wallace was nominated for both the Student Senate Faculty Excellence Award and Student Organization Advisor of the Year. Szuminsky was also a 2018 Fellow of the Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute at Arizona State’s Cronkite School of Journalism and a 2014 graduate of the SPJ Ted Scripps Howard Leadership Institute.
From 2017-2020, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Baldwin Wallace University, where he taught journalism, media literacy and media production courses and is the faculty advisor to the student newspaper, The Exponent.
Before joining Baldwin Wallace, Szuminsky was an instructor of communication at Waynesburg University for eight years, where he guided student journalists at The Yellow Jacket to more than 55 regional, state and national journalism awards.
He received the Lucas D. Hathaway Award for Teaching Excellence from Waynesburg University in 2012 and following his first year at Baldwin Wallace was nominated for both the Student Senate Faculty Excellence Award and Student Organization Advisor of the Year. Szuminsky was also a 2018 Fellow of the Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute at Arizona State’s Cronkite School of Journalism and a 2014 graduate of the SPJ Ted Scripps Howard Leadership Institute.