Saralie Slonsky
Saralie Slonsky has spent over 25 years as a healthcare communications
senior executive and strategic counselor, designing targeted strategies
to address a broad spectrum of corporate and marketing goals and
influence a wide range of audiences. Her highly diversified agency
experience includes strategic planning, creative development, public
affairs, public policy support, corporate positioning, issues management
and internal communications.
She has managed the launch of - and sustaining support for - diverse
categories of prescription and OTC pharmaceuticals and related healthcare
products and services. She also created reputation management programs
for major pharmaceutical companies, equipment manufacturers and
healthcare providers.
Now an independent consultant, Saralie was a member of the strategic
planning group that founded Burson Marsteller’s pioneering
healthcare communications division, helping to drive the development
of breakthrough healthcare communications vehicles which remain
today as best practice standards. Later, she led the establishment
of Dentsu Burson Marsteller’s healthcare practice and then
moved to Cohn & Wolfe to help restructure their health care
division.
Earlier she managed the food, wine and nutrition program at Ted
Sills, ultimately combining her food marketing background and health
care experience to develop nutrition marketing programs for companies
with a stake in diet and health. At the outset of her career, Saralie
developed communications strategies for financial services companies,
Paine Webber and Merrill Lynch, more recently calling on this experience
to support the corporate and marketing goals of emerging bio-tech
companies.
Saralie served as an industry liaison for the American Medical
Association, a consultant to the Lupus Foundation and American Kidney
Foundation, a Board member of Medic Alert and the Women Executives
in Public Relations (WEPR) foundation and a charter member and past
president of LDEI, a professional association for the wine, food
and hospitality industries. She is currently an adjunct professor
for communications at New York University School of Continuing Education
and a member of American Society for Training and Development.
She received a bachelor of arts degree in international relations and communications
from the University of Wisconsin and Emerson College, and post-graduate
certificates from the Universities of Leiden (Netherlands), Mexico,
New York Institute of Finance and the L’Academie Francaise
in Paris. Saralie is based in New York.
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