By Greg Hazley
Healthcare PR pro Paul McDade died in a head-on car crash Tuesday morning in Patchogue, Long Island. He was 44.
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McDade was worldwide director/health and pharmaceuticals at Hill & Knowlton from 2000-04, where he counseled clients such as Pfizer, Roche, Novartis and Sanofi.
Among highlights were global PR supervision for Actonel, the osteoporosis treatment marketed by Procter & Gamble and Sanofi , and the relaunch of the WPP unit’s biotech division in the U.S. and EMEA.
Earlier, McDade was senior VP at Edelman and worldwide healthcare practice chief at Ruder Finn.
Most recently, McDade ran the New York office of Corinth Marketing & PR, which is based in South Boston.
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