About the Author
My name is Mark Senak. I’m a lawyer and I work at the international communications firm FleishmanHillard in New York. For the past several years, I have been consulting with pharmaceutical and biologic companies that are engaged in the process of bringing new drugs to market. I have also worked extensively with an array of medical societies and patient organizations providing strategic communications counsel and media training.
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Principles for COVID-19 Healthcare Communications – 1 Keep it Simple, Keep it Organized
On February 21 I published a piece on LinkedIn – Communications Considerations for Medical Manufacturers as the COVID-19 Epidemic Emerges – that provided an overview of some of the communications considerations for pharma, biotech and device manufacturers related to the … Continue reading
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Freshman Healthbook
We have just been through an election cycle and the 113th Congress is in lame duck session. We are about to move on to the new Congress in January 2015. Who did America elect and what is their position on … Continue reading
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Healthcare and the Election – Stateside Ballot Initiatives
We are days away from the mid-term elections. Don’t worry, this isn’t another piece to read about how the Senate could hang in the balance for weeks; or how one party or another might retain or take control of any … Continue reading
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FDA Untitled Letter for a Sponsored Link and a Webinar: In More than 140 Characters: FDA’s Social Media Guidance – Past, Present and Future
I crammed a lot into that title. But here is the skinny. A few weeks ago, FDA issued some new guidances around social media. This week, (yesterday) an untitled letter was posted about a sponsored link – the subject matter … Continue reading
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FDA Press Releases – What They Say – First Half 2014
From time to time, I field questions centered around FDA press releases and what they say. Every time I would have to go hunt and peck through years of releases to get an answer. Eventually I just put them into … Continue reading
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