Nancy Fitzsimmons, managing director for W20's Twist Marketing, has moved to Hill+Knowlton Strategies in New York as a senior VP in its corporate and crisis practice.
H+K US president and CEO Beth Balsam called Fitzsimmons a "healthcare communications pioneer."
Fitzsimmons, who lead corporate health work at Twist, was senior director of corporate initiatives at AstraZeneca and directed external communications for Quest Diagnostics after comms. stints at Organon Pharmaceuticals and Novartis (VP of global comms.).
Fitzsimmmons also logged time at Bayer Healthcare's diagnostics division, Warner Lambert Co. and Burson-Marsteller.
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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