Contact Information: Contact: Beth Paulino or Kerianne McGuire CommonHealth (973) 352-1000
PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - July 10, 2008) - HLS, the founding CommonHealth
medical-education unit, today announced the promotion of Mary Anderson to
president. Ms. Anderson advances to her new position from her previous rank
of general manager.
CommonHealth (www.commonhealth.com) is the world's leading
healthcare-communications network and a WPP (NASDAQ : WPPGY ) (www.wpp.com)
company.
In her new role, Ms. Anderson will assume primary responsibility for HLS.
Ms. Anderson will also be charged with innovating program offerings in
anticipation of the ever-changing healthcare environment to meet the
educational needs of clients, physicians and patients. In addition, she
will continue to manage the HLS leadership committee, oversee all client
activity and serve on the CommonHealth executive committee.
Ms. Anderson has been employed with HLS for 3 years and has an expansive
background in medical education. With more than 20 years of experience and
having held top executive level positions at many medical education
companies, including ACCESS Medica Group; MPE Communications; and her own
company, The Right Angle (TRA), Ms. Anderson is an expert in promotional
and accredited medical-education programming. She has developed live
events, curricula, publication strategies and disease-specific initiatives
in most therapeutic categories, both in the United States and globally.
As president, Ms. Anderson will report to Stacey Singer, managing partner
of CommonHealth, responsible for the medical education units in the
network.
"In the 3 years that Mary has been with HLS, she has fruitfully utilized
her keen insight and precise instinct to keep ahead of the curve and
develop strategic solutions to meet the pressing needs facing our clients.
I have no doubt that as she takes the reigns as president, her list of
achievements will grow, bringing HLS to even greater heights," stated
Stacey Singer.
CommonHealth comprises HLS, Altum, Carbon, CommonHealth London,
CommonHealth Paris, Conectics, Earthborn, EvoLogue, Ferguson, MBS/Vox,
Noesis, ProCom, Qi and Solara. The organization also maintains numerous
partnerships both within and outside of the WPP network of companies.