Carol Cartwright
Senior Director of Client Services

With more than 15 years of health care PR agency experience, Carol provides current MCS clients, including sanofi-aventis, Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, Inc. with strategic and creative counsel, and directs account teams in the implementation of comprehensive professional and consumer education campaigns and corporate public relations programs. She is a member of the agency's New Business Committee and Management Team.

During her tenure at MCS, Carol has managed account teams representing products from a variety of therapeutic areas, including cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, oncology, urology, neurology, rheumatology, pulmonology, and immunology.

In her previous position as Director of Client Services at MCS, Carol had management focus for Aventis Pharmaceuticals (now sanofi-aventis), Genentech, Merck Vaccine Division, McNeil Consumer Products, Pharmacia (now Pfizer) and Roche Laboratories. In this role, she gained extensive experience in coalition-building as co-director for the American Heart Association's Metro Stroke Task Force program, a five-city pilot program involving medical professionals and community leaders to build awareness of stroke and to improve emergency response to its symptoms.

She also was the Account Supervisor for the respiratory products of Allen & Hanburys Division of Glaxo, Inc., and served as a member of the marketing communications team representing Lederle Laboratories' ProStep® transdermal nicotine patch, and Rheumatrex® for rheumatoid arthritis. Earlier in her career at MCS, Carol worked extensively on cardiovascular products marketed by Zeneca Pharmaceuticals Group in the US and UK, developed a public education program on acne for Lederle International, and coordinated several promotional campaigns for ALZA Corporation and Warner-Lambert.

Carol joined MCS as an Account Executive from the Hospital Satellite Network (HSN). Before HSN, Carol was an Account Executive at Wang Associates, where she coordinated public relations programs for several major pharmaceutical companies.

Prior to graduating with honors from Douglass College with a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass media, she served an internship in the Community Relations department at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and in the Spot Sales department for NBC-TV in New York.