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| Valerie Corr Hanserd |
Valerie Corr Hanserd has joined Medtronic, the $30B medical devices giant, after a 17-year run at bp America.
She has the VP-communications, global operations & supply chain position, which is responsible for more than 40,000 Medtronic workers.
Hanserd reports directly to Greg Smith, executive VP, global operations & supply chain; and functionally to Torod Neptune, senior VP, chief communications officer & corporate marketing.
She exited bp America in July as senior government affairs manager, customers & products.
Hanserd played a key role in bp America’s handling of its 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
She was bp America’s external/government affairs liaison to the Deepwater Horizon Response Unified Area Command, cultivating relations with the media and officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and Depts. of Defense and Homeland Security.
Prior to bp America, Hanserd did PR and advance work for the Obama for Senate campaign and worked as senior account executive at Jasculca/Terman and Assocs. in Chicago.
Jim Weiss, founder & chairman of Real Chemistry, has joined the board of ICR Inc. as it steps up its healthcare capital markets offering.
Ruder Finn has hired Kelly Yoder, who spent a dozen years at Weber Shandwick rising to North America health lead, as managing director, global head of health & life sciences.
ICR has named John Capodanno head of US healthcare corporate communications and Matthew Willey managing director in its medical technology and diagnostics practice. 
April is National Minority Health Month, spotlighting the urgency to improve health outcomes in communities of color.
In a recent conversation about the evolving media landscape, Doug Simon, CEO of D S Simon Media, spoke with Campbell O’Connor, Group Director, Media & Engagement at Real Chemistry, about how AI is influencing media relations and healthcare communications.
