Two former board chairs of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication (CHC) were named as the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame (MAHF) 2025 inductees – Sharon Callahan, former Chief Client Officer at Omnicom Health Group (OHG), and Nick Colucci, former Chairman and CEO of Publicis Health/COO of Publicis Groupe North America. The inductees will be honored […]
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Feb. 11, 2020 – John Kamp, who served for 16 years as the executive director of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication, last week was inducted into the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame (MAHF) and given the MAHF’s 2020 Service to Industry Award. “John is a wise, shrewd, and articulate defender of the First Amendment right […]
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May 16, 2019 – In a May 15 podcast interview with Medical Marketing & Media’s (MM&M’s) Senior Editor Larry Dobrow, Sharon Callahan, CEO, TBWA\WorldHealth; chief client officer, Omnicom Health Group, spoke about her many years as a member and the former chair – and first woman chair – of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication’s executive […]
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Aug. 2, 2018 – Roughly 27 years after the Coalition for Healthcare Communication was established, Jack Angel – one of the Coalition’s founding members and the current executive director of the Coalition’s Education Foundation – is retiring on Aug. 17. Angel was the Executive Director of the Coalition from its beginning in 1991 to 2004, […]
Read more April 24, 2018 – When Sharon Callahan, Chief Client Officer, Omnicom, and CEO, TBWA\WorldHealth, was approached by a small group of women in advertising to support the start of a Time’s Up Advertising movement, she didn’t hesitate to sign an open letter putting industry on notice that sexual harassment is not okay. “There were 14 […]
Read more Aug. 28, 2017 – Although things have been quiet on the drug promotion and advertising front recently, developing a marketer code of ethics now is a proactive way for the industry to ensure that it has the issues of tamping down fraud and increasing compliance under control, according to an Aug. 15 article written by […]
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Aug. 22, 2017 – In the wake of an FDA study showing that consumers recall risk information better when they are not inundated with a comprehensive list of risks in direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads, the agency is establishing a public docket “to assist with its development of recommendations” in this area. The FDA’s Office of Prescription […]
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Aug. 11, 2017 – The results of a recent study conducted by the FDA and RTI International has concluded that a revised, briefer risk statement in broadcast direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads improves risk and benefit recognition and risk recall. As such, a move toward communicating a limited number of risks and including a disclosure alerting consumers […]
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Nov 18, 2016 – Although many in the medical marketing industry were bracing for a post-election drug pricing battle with Hillary Clinton, instead they are taking a beat and preparing for the uncertainty of a new regime under President-elect Donald Trump, according to speakers at the Coalition for Healthcare Communication’s member meeting held Nov 15-16 […]
Read moreJune 17, 2016 – In order to stay ahead of change, further their careers and forward the positive message of how healthcare marketing improves lives, the industry’s next generation must engage in the political process, never stop learning and be authentic in changing the conversation, according to three CEOs who led a panel discussion at […]
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