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W2O, the No. 1 ranked independent healthcare PR firm, has acquired Elysia Group, an economic and outcomes research outfit based in New York.
Elysia, which has offices in Taipei and Shanghai, provides modeling approaches to help pharmaceutical and medical device companies gauge cost-effectiveness, market sizing, forecasting and portfolio analysis.
Bruce Wang, Elysia CEO/co-founder, and Wesley Furnback, president/co-founder, join W2O as health economics and real-world evidence-practice leaders.
They report to Rita Glaze, W2O's commercial strategy and market access practice leader.
Elysia will work closely with W2O’s Discern Health unit, which counsels clients on performance measures and innovative payment models that shape the market for their products and services.
“The collective expertise and capabilities of Elysia and Discern enable us to help clients plan for and execute their commercial and market access strategies at greater quality and depth than ever before,” said Glaze.
The Elysia deal is W20’s seventh acquisition since it announced a partnership in 2019 with New Mountain Capital.
W2O registered $218.9M in healthcare fees in 2019, according to O'Dwyer's ranking of PR firms.
Finn Partners has recruited cardiologist and noted patient care advocate Richard Levin as chief health affairs counselor, a newly created position.
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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