CooperKatz & Company has won a competitive review to guide strategic communications for New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the world’s largest private cancer institution.
Christine Hickey, VP of strategic communications and PA at MSK, said CK will aid the 13,000-staff institution in helping people “see, discuss and understand cancer in new ways.”
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CK joins an agency roster ironed out earlier this year that includes Pereira & O’Dell (creative), Media Storm (media), Phase2 and DigitasLBi (digital).
Joanne Davis Consulting handled the PR agency search.
CK has repped The Physicians Foundation, Oxford Molecular and PLC Medical Systems on the healthcare front.
Lo Isidro, senior director at Real Chemistry with more than a decade of strategic communications and PA experience, has joined Narrative Strategies.
Nelson Fernandez, former North American chair of APCO Worldwide and managing director of Burson-Marsteller, has joined Volunteers in Medicine Berkshires as director of communications and PA.
Lilit Bargar, who was most recently an EVP in the healthcare practice at Weber Shandwick, comes on board at GCI Health as EVP, corporate practice lead.
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