david duvallDavid Duvall, a WPP and Publicis alum who co-founded a New Jersey-based healthcare communications and communications shop, has moved to southern health system Novant Health to lead marketing and communications.

Duvall heads to Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant as senior VP, marketing, communications and business development, taking over for Jim Tobalski, who retired. He is charged with advancing the not-for-profit's strategic branding plan developed earlier this year.

Novant provides healthcare through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia via 14 medical centers and hundreds of clinics and other centers.

Before co-founding Clarus Health, he was EVP for Publicis Healthcare Group and division president and GM at Ogilvy CommonHealth. He started out in pharmaceutical sales at Cargill and sanofi-aventis.

Kati Everett is VP, PR and marketing, at Novant.