Robert A. Kent

Dr. Robert Kent leads Unity Health Network as President, and also maintains an active primary care practice. Additionally, he is President and CEO of Western Reserve Hospital, Northeast Ohio’s only private, for-profit full-service hospital, and serves as president of Western Reserve Hospital Partners (a physician investor group that founded Western Reserve Hospital), and president of Premiere Medical Resources (a physician management services organization) – all of which are Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio-based. During his tenure in leading these organizations, Dr. Kent has been selected as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year recipient, noted multiple times as one of Becker’s Hospital Review’s Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know and awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Summit County Medical Society.

Dr. Kent earned his undergraduate degree at Saint Ambrose University, his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree at Des Moines University, completed an Internal Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship at Michigan State University and is a Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Internists. He serves as an officer and executive committee member on the Akron Regional Hospital Association Board of Directors and as a Board Director for the Akron-Canton Area Agency on Aging.