Integrated healthcare communications agency Centron has officially repositioned the company with a new vision, new offering, and new leadership team.

New York Festivals Global Awards, honoring the World’s Best Healthcare & Wellness Advertising, announced the 2017 Executive and Grand Juries.

Two have been around in the pharmaceutical industry for a long time, and one is a relative newcomer. In considering this year’s pharma innovators to profile, the results of their accomplishments, not how long they have been around, steered the direction of this feature. Donna Murphy, global CEO of the recently formed agency network Havas Health & You; Abraham Gutman, president and CEO of AG Mednet; and C. David Nicholson, executive VP and chief R&D officer of Allergan, are being saluted for bringing new innovations to the fields of pharmaceutical advertising, clinical trial imaging and R&D, and their accomplishments are expected to echo into the future.

Leading healthcare and pharma communications professionals from around the globe convened at the fourth annual Lions Health festival on June 17-18, 2017, in Cannes, France. Key trends and issues in healthcare communications were explored during “two days of life-changing creativity.” Following are perspectives on various topics from some of the industry experts who attended this year’s event …

Change is inevitable, and evolving and growing with it is the only way to move forward. That’s just a fact. Those in our industry who aren’t willing to embrace the constant changes we’re seeing in technology, trends, and now how we market health and wellness brands, are going to be left behind because journal ads, banner ads and TV commercials as exclusive mediums will likely not sufficiently reach a brand’s target audiences any longer.

There were 580 entries into this year’s Pharma category at Cannes Lions Health. That’s 580 case films accompanied by a slow, heart-wrenching solo piano track that begins with a few spare notes and builds to an optimistic outcome.

Publicis Health’s message delivery businesses announced that Brion Brandes has been named Executive Vice President of Business Development.

The Pharma winners were revealed at the Lions Health 2017 Awards Show.

The Health & Wellness winners were revealed at the Lions Health 2017 Awards Show.

Area 23, an FCB Health company, was named “Healthcare Agency of the Year” during the 2017 Cannes Lions Health award ceremonies.