Hillarie Turner joins Environics Communications as Account Supervisor in Health Care PR practice

Washington, September 20, 2010 – Environics Communications, Inc., a full-service North American PR agency, today announced that Hillarie Turner has joined the agency's Washington, D.C. health care practice as an account supervisor.

Turner has more than 15 years of professional PR experience with health and science associations. At Environics, she will be servicing the agency's expanding roster of health care and life sciences clients, including for-profit companies and associations/nonprofit organizations.

Prior to joining Environics, Turner was a communications and public affairs executive at the American Psychiatric Association (APA). In her eight years at APA, she was responsible for overall branding and public awareness campaigns for the association and a wide range of mental health issues; ongoing trade and national consumer media relations; design/production of the annual report; management of the association's consumer website and social media campaigns; supervision of media relations during APA's annual meeting; and coordination with health advocacy groups and coalitions.

Additionally, Turner worked in the communications department of both the American Chemical Society and the American Chemistry Council (formerly the Chemical Manufacturers' Association), and she started a marketing communications practice for the mid-Atlantic region of Deloitte & Touche consulting firm. She is a graduate of Elon University in North Carolina, and a two-term past president of Washington Women in PR. She is on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcmetropr.

"Hillarie has a range of health care and life sciences experience directly related to our roster of clients, both in the for-profit and non-profit sectors," said Environics' U.S. General Manager Dave Groobert. "She is a seasoned health care PR professional who understands medicine, science, and the delivery of health care services. Additionally, she knows how associations and nonprofit organizations operate, and how to market them successfully to professionals, other organizations and consumers."