Contact Information: Contact: Beth Paulino or Kerianne McGuire CommonHealth (973) 352-1000
MBS/Vox Promotes and Expands
| Source: MBS/Vox
PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - August 13, 2008) - MBS/Vox, the research-based consultancy unit
of CommonHealth specializing in analysis of naturally occurring healthcare
interactions, including physician-patient communication, today announced
four new hires and one promotion.
CommonHealth (www.commonhealth.com) is the world's leading
healthcare-communications network and a WPP (NASDAQ : WPPGY ) (www.wpp.com)
company.
New Hires
Heather Derenthal joins MBS/Vox as director of Client Services. In this
position, Ms. Derenthal will be responsible for growing and maintaining a
diverse client base of 20+ pharmaceutical and biotech companies, ensuring
that clients' expectations are met and exceeded. Ms. Derenthal will be
focusing on the cache of MBS/Vox core products, including in-office
physician-patient dialogue research, as well as new group offerings focused
on adherence conversations and hospital-based dialogues. Ms. Derenthal
brings with her 6 years' experience in pharmaceutical marketing and
research. Before coming to MBS/Vox, Ms. Derenthal served as director of
Online Promotions at Compass Healthcare Communications, an online medical
marketing agency located in Princeton.
New to the company's analytic group, headed by Corey Eagan, Eileen Mathis
comes to MBS/Vox as a senior analyst. Ms. Mathis is completing her Master's
degree in sociolinguistics from Georgetown University.
Also joining the analytic department, Jonathan Lim and Matthew DiChiara
come to MBS/Vox as analysts. Mr. Lim has a background in healthcare market
research. Mr. DiChiara recently graduated from Quinnipiac University with a
bachelor's degree in psychology. These individuals' core responsibilities
will include analyzing naturally occurring healthcare interactions using
linguistic techniques. They will also be aggregating findings for client
brainstorming sessions, and developing study based publications.
Promotions
Karen Wagner has been promoted from senior executive assistant to associate
program manager. In her new role, Ms. Wagner will be responsible for
developing and managing program timelines and organizing and implementing
study procedures. Ms. Wagner has been with MBS/Vox for more than a year.
Previously, she was employed with EvoLogue (formerly Quantum), a sister
unit of CommonHealth, for nine years.
CommonHealth comprises MBS/Vox, Altum, Carbon, CommonHealth London,
CommonHealth Paris, Conectics, Earthborn, EvoLogue, Ferguson, HLS, Noesis,
ProCom, Qi and Solara. The organization also maintains numerous
partnerships both within and outside of the WPP network of companies.