The Widmeyer Health Care Team Shares Insights on
This Constantly Evolving Sector

The health care and life sciences industry is changing significantly. And current trends are posing significant challenges in how the health care industry communicates to an ever growing number of key audiences and stakeholders.

The Widmeyer Health Care Practice has tackled a variety of these kinds of challenges in recent months. We work with international pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and leading nonprofits like the American Foundation for the Blind, specialty medical
societies like the American College of Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology, and the National Community Pharmacists Association.

Read more about our recent work and our team's successful approach.


Widmeyer Proudly Welcomes New Clients: Northwestern University, American Road and Transportation Builders Association, Health Research Incorporated

Widmeyer Communications proudly welcomed several new clients in early 2007. Among them, Northwestern University, one of the nation's most renowned higher learning institutions, recently selected Widmeyer to conduct an extensive independent market research study.

Additionally, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association has engaged Widmeyer to assist them in the development and execution of a multi-year workforce development program.

And finally, the Consortium for Risk and Crisis Communication (comprised of Widmeyer Communications and the Center for Risk Communication) was recently awarded a contract by Health Research Incorporated (HRI), a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with the New York State Department of Health. The Consortium will conduct faith-based communication audience research and risk and crisis communication trainings for HRI.

Widmeyer Welcomes New Senior Associate Kathy Gerber to Our Growing Health Care Practice

Widmeyer recently announced the appointment of Kathy Gerber who will serve as a senior associate in the firm’s rapidly growing health care practice. Gerber previously conducted national and regional media outreach for major corporations and industry groups such as Toshiba American Business Solutions, Delta Faucet Company, Lennox Hearth Products, and the Copper Development Association.

2007 Scott D. Widmeyer Scholarship Winners at West Virginia University Announced

Widmeyer Communications maintains a scholarship program at West Virginia University. The program, which was endowed in 1998 in the name of Scott D. Widmeyer, regularly endows two scholarships a year and benefits benefits first generation college students and African American students attending the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at WVU. Read more about this year's winners, Keenan Cummings and Shamika Page.