Sara Ghazaii Marino
Sara Ghazaii Marino

Sara Ghazaii Marino, who was associate director of global communications for Novartis, has joined Pacira Biosciences as executive director of corporate communications.

Tampa-based Pacira is a leader in non-opioid pain management.

It established a partnership in June with the National Safety Council to promote the Connect2Prevent employee-family education program to increase awareness and prevention of opioid addiction.

Prior to joining Novartis, Marino was VP-corporate communications and marketing at MWWPR, which is now MikeWorldWide.

She also was VP-director of communications at the PR Council and New York Genome Center.

Pacira, which trades on the NASDAQ, earned $6.8M on $158M Q1 revenues.