New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has rehired Avice Meehan as VP-communications/CCO to lead the hospital's recently consolidated PR, PA and marketing efforts.

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Meehan headed PA at MSKCC for eight years until `02 when she departed for the VP-communications/PA at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. At HHMC, Meehan promoted its biomedical research and science initiatives in print, digital venues.

Earlier, Meehan worked as a reporter/editor and was communications director for former Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker, who took the state house as a third-party candidate.

At MSKCC, Meehan will also handle advertising and its website.

Craig Thompson, president & CEO of MSKCC, said Meehan's job is to "help shape the delivery of our message going forward."