LaVoieHealthScience

LaVoieHealthScience is an integrated strategic marketing and communications agency dedicated to advancing health, technology and science innovations. With expertise and relationships with key stakeholders, LHS connects its clients with their key audiences to achieve business outcomes.

Industries

Corporate | Digital Marketing | Healthcare | Technology

Services

Contact Information

20 Park Plaza, Suite 312

Tel: 1-617-865-0036

hello@lavoiehealthscience.com

http://www.lavoiehealthscience.com

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LaVoieHealthScience

Industries

Corporate | Digital Marketing | Healthcare | Technology

Services

Contact Information

20 Park Plaza, Suite 312

hello@lavoiehealthscience.com

http://www.lavoiehealthscience.com

Social Media

Our Team

Donna L. LaVoie

Donna’s efforts combine building the agency’s health and science IR and PR practices, strategic direction, staff growth and core competencies. Under Donna’s leadership, LaVoieHealthScience has become an acknowledged leader in health science strategic communications and recognized as one of the top 30 independent healthcare agencies in the US. The agency has received over 50 awards for its client’s work. She is a regular speaker and has written on a range of industry topics for BIO Innovation Organization (BIO) and more.
A PharmaVoice100 2020 recipient, Donna has been recognized for “moving the needle” and creative approaches to solving complex communications challenges. She spearheaded the agency’s trademarked services, The LHS Immersion® process as well as The LHS Fifteen Slide Presentation, which forms the basis for how to tell your story. In 2019, Donna formed a global strategic alliance with Omnicom Public Relations Group to augment the agency’s services with scale and geographic expansion for client success. Prior to starting LHS, Donna was a practitioner at signature biotech’s such as Genzyme Corporation (Sanofi), Alkermes, Inc. and Millennium (Takeda).
Previous Experience
• Novell Inc. (Cambridge Technology Partners), Vice President of Investor Relations
• Senior communications and investor relations roles at several life sciences companies including Ergo Science Corporation, Alkermes, Inc., and part of founding team at Genzyme Corporation (Sanofi)
Affiliations
• Board of Advisors, Life Science Cares
• BIO 2018 Host Committee, Communications
• Senior Roundtable at the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI)
• Former Co-Chair of MassBio’s communication and marketing committee
• PR Agency Council
• The Stevie Awards for Women in Business 2018
• PharmaVoice100 Inspiring Leaders 2020

Katie Dodge, Senior Vice President, General Manager, Boston

kdodge@lavoiehealthscience.com

Seasoned media relations specialist with a focus on global public health, data and science!

James Heins, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, NY Practice

With more than 30 years of experience, Jim Heins provides senior level communications counsel and support to emerging and multinational biopharmaceutical, medical technology, health IT and health care services companies. He specializes in corporate, financial and brand communications, investor relations, stakeholder engagement, and issues management. He helps companies in US, Europe and Asia elevate their share of voice and communicate their value proposition to global audiences. For 18 years, Jim has worked as a communications executive within the pharmaceutical industry, handling corporate reputation, brand PR support, patient advocacy and internal communications. He executes multi-channel public relations programs and leverages his extensive relationships with key financial and industry media to raise his clients’ visibility within the investment community and pharmaceutical sector. He has also worked with R&D and brand teams to commercialize a range of health care products. Previous Experience • Senior-level positions in the life science and health care practices of leading PR agencies, including H&K Strategies, ICR, Cooney Waters Unlimited and Burns McClellan • Senior Director of Corporate Affairs & Communications, Purdue Pharma • Manager, Public Affairs, Boehringer Ingelheim

Ella Deych Cerminara, MBA – Senior Vice President, Finance & Operations

Ella brings over 13 years of experience in finance to LHS and leads both the agency-wide finance and operational functions. She acts as the liaison to external business partners while providing financial, human resources, IT, and talent acquisition guidance to the agency. Her strategic oversight and deep financial, auditing, and operational experience support the growth trajectory of the agency. Ella’s expertise is instrumental in supporting the development of proposals and onboarding new clients as well as resource planning, forecasting, budgeting, and allocations. She is also responsible for developing and implementing operational procedures. Previous Experience • Finance Manager, Senior Staff Accountant and Staff Accountant, Racepoint Global, Inc. • Staff Accountant and Auditor, Alexander, Aronson, Finning & Co. PC

Paul Sagan, Vice President, IR & Corporate Communications

Paul has more than 30 years of experience in investor relations, corporate communications, and integrated communications for both publicly traded companies and emerging private entities. He has helped develop investor communications strategies for more than $2.5 billion in public equity, venture, and convertible debt offerings. His practice focus has been primarily in the life science/biotech and medical device fields where he has advised more than 50 firms from venture-backed startups to multinational corporations. He is instrumental in the agency’s investor research and analytics capabilities, as well as investor identification and targeting outreach. A five-time winner of the PR Club’s Bell Ringer award, he also has extensive experience in media relations and marketing communications and is skilled at communicating complex information for his life science clients to both the investment community and to the general public. He has secured media coverage for his clients in the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNBC, and National Public Radio; as well as The Economist, U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, Dow Jones, and The Associated Press. Previous Experience Senior investor relations and communications roles at: • KCSA Strategic Commuinications • Sharon Merrill Associates • getpress.com • The Hubbell Group • Morgan-Walke Associates Thermo Electron Camp Dresser & McKee Symmes, Maini & McKee Affiliations • National Investor Relations Institute • Public Relations Society of America • American Society of Magazine Photographers

Lisa DeScenza, Vice President, Integrated Communications & Head, BD & Marketing

Lisa is a strategic communications leader with over 25 years of experience delivering and executing customized, integrated communications plans to global and emerging health and science companies. She is dedicated to building strong partnerships with her clients and leads account teams to build recognition and extend visibility and value of their companies, products, platforms, and technologies. Lisa’s integrated background is in public relations, media relations, investor relations, corporate communications, marketing, and business development. She is dedicated to growing the agency and leads the marketing and new business teams to optimize visibility of the agency to its target audiences and showcases the team’s role as strategic thinkers within the life science ecosystem. Previous Experience Lisa was Director of Corporate Planning and Communications at Ergo Science Corporation for 14 years. While there, she led two successful stock splits and worked closely with board members on various corporate projects. She acted as the company’s spokesperson and was responsible for writing all press releases and SEC filings. She was responsible for organizing and executing annual meetings and proxy voting as well as special events and trade shows. Lisa has written articles for various publications including O’Dwyer’s PR Magazine and Communications Intelligence Magazine.

Harriet Ullman, Vice President, Public Relations

Harriet offers a broad range of communications services for clients. . She provides her clients with integrated communications support – from product communications, advocacy relationship management and media relations to strategic corporate positioning, branding and issues management. Previous Experience Previously she was Vice President in the Healthcare Practice at Ogilvy PR/Feinstein Kean Healthcare. Harriet brings more than 30 years of business and communications experience in the pharmaceutical and business consulting industries. She was the Segment Marketing Manager at Philips Healthcare for its Senior Living division, and, prior to joining Ogilvy, she was responsible for corporate communications and marketing at Copley Pharmaceutical, Inc. Previously she was the Public Relations Manager at Charles River Associates Incorporated, an economics/management consulting firm.