Pharmaceutical Market Europe • July/August 2023 • 3
COMMENT
Communiqué 2023:
celebrating 25 years of excellence!
This year, the Communiqué Awards celebrated 25 years of excellence within the healthcare communications industry.
Held at the London Grosvenor House Hotel on 6 July, the event welcomed hundreds of guests who were entertained by comedian and television personality Patrick Kielty.
This year, the Awards included 31 categories, covering healthcare communications and medical affairs, as well as individual, team and company honours.
The two co-chairs, Fiona McMillan, vice-president, international communications at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Jeremy Clark, founder and chairman at Clark Health Communications shared with the crowd how much had changed since the inaugural Awards ceremony in 1998.
Among the teams recognised for their outstanding work were Inizio Medical for Excellence in Communicating and Using Data, and Hammel for Excellence in Patient Programmes.
The award for In-House Team of the Year went to Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, with the final award of the night, Communiqué Communications Consultancy of the Year, going to Arc Bio Communications, and the judges thanks all the teams who had submitted entries.
We are excited to bring you full coverage of the event. Turn to page 26 to see photos and other exciting details from the night, including a list of winners. A full list of the results can be viewed here: www.pmlive.com/communique/results2023
In this issue, our cover article focuses on creating truly effective communications excellence by navigating the busy omnichannel communication lanes to make the best of digital. Read more on page 36.
Also in this issue, turn to page 16 to read about how genomics can help us win the fight against AMR and on page 20, we have an article celebrating life-changing creative at Cannes Lions.
Looking ahead, our September issue will look at the benefits of improving clinical trial diversity through increased representation.
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I hope you enjoy this issue!
Iona Everson
Group Managing Editor
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EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Philip Atkinson
Founder of Hive-Logic, Lifescience Transformation
Uday Bose
Corporate vice president, head of global marketing oncology, Boehringer Ingelheim
Dr Luc Hermans
VP commercial planning and operations Europe, Asia, Middle East, Gilead Sciences
Stefan Janssens
President EMEA, Cegedim Dendrite
John Morris
Partner, KPMG
Paul Pay
Chief business development officer, Norgine
Mark Rothera
Chief executive officer, Orchard Therapeutics
Ian Talmage
Senior vice president, global marketing, general medicine, Bayer Pharmaceuticals
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