![]() Stephen Piotrowski |
Washington, D.C.-based healthcare firm JPA Health Communications has appointed Stephen Piotrowski as managing director of the firm’s Boston office.
Piotrowski joins the healthcare communications firm from Havas Health & You Network unit Health4Brands, where he served as executive vice president and managing director. He was previously an EVP and global brand director at Havas Worldwide Health and an EVP and client services director at Saatchi & Saatchi’s Healthcare Innovations unit. Earlier in his career, he was a VP and management supervisor at healthcare marketing communications agency Nelson Communications.
Piotrowski will now lead JPA’s Boston outpost.
One of the top independent healthcare PR firms in the country, JPA accounted for more than $9.1 million in healthcare-related net fees in 2017, according to O’Dwyer’s rankings of PR firms.


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