Porter Novelli has recruited Mary Smiddy as chief of its health and wellness group in London.
The Weber Shandwick pro, who began her career as an intensive care nurse in Dublin, also had been at Burson-Marsteller, Edelman and GlaxoSmithKline.
She has counseled pharma blue-chips such as Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wyeth and Merck.
PN, which is part of Omnicom, counts Pfizer, Procter and Gamlbe and Boehringer Ingelheim among its health-related clients.
Sally Ward, who rejoined PN in 2010 after serving as Weber Shandwick/U.K chief and consumer czar across Europe, Middle East and Africa, is managing director of the London outpost.
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