MARION E. GLICK
Marion offers clients strategic counsel and tactical execution to support communications for academic, governmental, non-profit, public and private organizations involved in public health, clinical care and health care delivery, and medical/ life science research and development.
Her communications work includes such awareness, data and organizational activities related to health/disease/wellness awareness campaigns, peer-review publication/ presentations, regulatory and business milestones; and product launches and extensions. She also is experienced in issues management/crises communications and in drafting collateral, content and white papers for public and media relations and marketing.
Her therapeutic area knowledge includes but is not limited to Alzheimer’s disease, ADHD, cardiovascular, diabetes, genomics, HIV/AIDS, immunology, infectious diseases, mental health, neuroscience, nutritionals, obesity, oncology, ophthalmology, oral health, public health, rheumatology, social science topics, urology and women’s health. She has experience with both U.S.-based and global companies.
Marion began her career at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, where she served as Assistant Director of Media Relations. As the first HIV spokesperson for JHMI, she conducted media relations supporting research and patient care involving AIDS and other infectious diseases, She also supported the schools of public health and nursing, The Brady Urological Institute and The Wilmer Eye Institute, among other medical specialties.
Marion then served as Chief of the Information Projects Section in the Office of Communications at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. NIAID, directed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, sponsors and conducts research of such diseases as HIV/AIDS, asthma as well as allergies and autoimmune disorders.
Marion then became Director of Communications for The Rockefeller University, where she managed public /media relations and institutional publications for this globally renowned graduate institution that specializes in biomedical research. While at RU, she managed the announcement of the discovery of leptin, the product of the obesity gene, and its role in weight loss, groundbreaking scientific research later recognized by the 2010 Lasker Award.
Marion also has held positions including Senior Vice President of Health Care Media Relations at the global public relations firm Porter Novelli and Vice President of Corporate Communications at Noonan/Russo Communications, Inc., a firm that serviced the biotech sector.
Marion is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and served on the board of its affiliate, Science Writers in New York. She is the author of “Corporate Public Relations,” in A Field Guide for Science Writers, Second Edition. She earned a bachelor of science degree in biology from Muhlenberg College, for which she served on the Board of Trustees, and a master of arts degree in science journalism from the University of Maryland.
