Jamie has over 13 years of healthcare and wellness communications experience in Canada, Asia and the Middle East.
Jamie currently lead’s Edelman’s regional health practice out of Singapore, working with global pharmaceutical, consumer health, nutrition and service providers to develop strategic communications campaigns and digital health solutions both in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region.
Prior to joining Edelman, Jamie was based in Dubai for seven years, where he developed Ketchum’s Healthcare Practice in the Middle East and North Africa into one of the top health communications consultancies in the region. He was also the award-winning strategic lead on numerous regional and global integrated campaigns for multinational clients such as Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, GSK, Medtronic, Merck Serono, Danone and Sidra Medical and Research Center.
His digital health work on GE Healthimagination in Saudi Arabia won the 2012 Gold SABRE Award for Community Relations and has been awarded the Middle East PR Association Award in the Healthcare category in 2012 and 2013.
Jamie also has extensive social media and digital experience developing award-winning programs for major companies and brands such as PepsiCo, Google, CNN, Phillips, Sony PlayStation and Standard Chartered Bank. He helped lead Ketchum’s global Social Media Task Force and Global Media Network, has developed numerous social and digital training programs and spoken at multiple conferences on the subject of digital PR and Digital Health.
Prior to joining Ketchum, Jamie worked in various communications capacities for Toronto Rehab, Canada’s largest adult rehabilitation hospital. There he gained health-specific experience in events, corporate communications, sponsorship, internal marketing, branding and social media.