Healthcare pro Margaret Shubny has joined GolinHarris in Chicago as executive director, reporting to Farah Speer, chief of the health practice at the Interpublic unit.
Most recently, Shubny was at Burson-Marsteller, handling oncology campaigns and issues management. That included the launch of Iressa (AstraZeneca and Teva), a therapy for the treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer, and National Breast Cancer Awareness Month educational effort.
Earlier, Shubny did product and corporate PR work at Baxter Healthcare.
In announcing the hire, Patti Temple Rocks, managing director of GH/Chicago, cited Shubny’s “more than 20 years of experience in health care communications, marketing and strategy development, media and investor relations, working both in the corporate environment and the agency setting.”