claire sheahanClaire Sheahan, a veteran healthcare PR pro who led communications for the Generic Pharmaceutical Association and helmed FleishmanHillard's DC health unit, is moving to healthcare research and consulting company Avalere Health to head its communications operation.

Sheahan will take a senior VP title in January 2015 at Avalere Communications.

She was a senior VP and partner at FH before moving to the GPA in early 2013 as VP for communications. She is also a former PA manager for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Assn. and an associate at GMMB.

Avalere was founded in 2000 by former White House OMB associate director Dan Mendelson.