Springer Healthcare Communications founded
Cheshire/Berlin, 20 April 2007 – SHC is a medical communications agency that uses the full range of communication and publishing strategies to develop high-impact medical education campaigns. The service portfolio includes strategic communications and publication planning, key opinion leader support, congress materials and events, as well as the creation of internet-based tools and the production of promotional material.
SHC provides publishing, planning and support to pharmaceutical product managers and secures high-quality research content for reprints, collections and local editions. "Exclusive access to Springer's more than 1,700 peer-reviewed journals, as well as the Springer and Humana book publishing programs, are a valuable advantage for SHC's clients", said Martin Mos, COO of Springer. In addition, the new agency reviews research literature to identify articles published elsewhere that are potentially relevant for promotional purposes.
Stephen Entwistle heads up Springer Healthcare Communications as Vice President. Stephen comes from Wolters Kluwer Health PharmaSolutions, where he was most recently the Vice President of Sales with a sales team covering Europe and Asia and selling LWW and Adis material as well as medical communications solutions. Stephen also spent several years each with Taylor and Francis and Blackwell Publishing.
In addition, Jo Hawes has joined SHC as Operations Director. Jo also comes from Wolters Kluwer Health PharmaSolutions where she was Operations Director.
Ann-Marie Cavanagh has been appointed as Sales Director. Ann-Marie has joined SHC from Prime Medica where she was Account Director responsible for a broad range of medical education initiatives.
Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of scientific and specialist literature. It is the second-largest publisher of journals in the science, technology, and medicine (STM) sector, the largest publisher of STM books and the largest business-to-business publisher in the German-language area. The group publishes over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide. Springer has operations in over 20 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and some 5,000 employees. In 2006, it generated annual sales of around EUR 924 million.
In addition to SHC, Springer has pharma publishing activities in Italy (MediCom Italia), Germany (Med.Komm, Springer Medizin Verlag), Switzerland (Springer Medizin Verlag Schweiz) and the UK and the USA (Current Medicine Group).
Contact:
Eric Merkel-Sobotta
Phone: +49 - 30 - 827 87- 54 34