evoke interaction Bolsters HCP Marketing Practice With Appointments of Heather Coyle, Executive Vice President, and Brian Whalen, Ph.D., Vice President

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Dec 17, 2012) -  evoke interaction, evokeinteraction.com, a leading full-service healthcare agency, announced today the appointments of two executives, adding extensive background and deep industry experience to its existing HCP marketing practice. Heather Coyle, executive vice president, HCP marketing, is the senior executive responsible for guiding the growth of the practice; Brian Whalen, Ph.D., leads all medical and scientific activity. Both executives will be based out of the company's New York office, managing projects across all regions.

With two decades of global healthcare communications experience, Coyle's diverse leadership background in pharmaceutical sales, HCP, DTC and DTP marketing, digital strategy, payor strategy, medical education and publication planning provides a solid foundation from which to increase evoke's focus on HCP marketing to deliver a more robust offering for clients. A Six Sigma black belt, Coyle also brings experience to develop innovative strategies that will ensure the company keeps pace with accelerating technological advances.

Dr. Whalen has been translating his experience in biomedical research at Harvard and Columbia Universities to pharmaceutical industry promotion, where he has focused on peer-to-peer medical education and advertising for the past seven years. His role with evoke's staff and clients is to ensure the medical relevance and scientific accuracy of professional projects, and to align these with overall brand strategies. He also will play a key role in defining content strategy and facilitating content execution, from inception through the medical-legal-regulatory approval process across all digital channels, and online promotional medical education.

"Heather and Brian both possess a potent combination of veteran leadership qualities and cutting-edge innovative thinking, characteristics that are essential for the continued growth of our HCP practice," said Reid Connolly, CEO, evoke interaction. "The result of Heather's significant agency and client-side HCP experience and Brian's ability to marry science and medicine in the digital world ensures a comfort level in knowing we have the right team in place to strengthen and grow our HCP practice."

"Today's HCPs are much more digitally savvy than they've been in the past," said Coyle, executive vice president, HCP marketing, evoke interaction. "evoke interaction's deep understanding of how to construct a digital ecosystem for physicians that will motivate, inspire and drive behavior change made my decision to join the agency an easy one."

"Few agencies are successful at achieving promotional communication objectives while speaking to members of the medical community in a language they understand," stated Whalen. "Working with Heather and the evoke interaction team, my goal is to ensure the scientific and medical leadership of our clients is reflected in the information, tools and services provided to physicians."

About evoke interaction
evoke interaction is a full-service healthcare agency with a heritage of digital innovation. Specializing in building and growing brands within the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, evoke has built an outstanding reputation for creating evocative, award-winning marketing platforms that educate, inform, and inspire action. With offices in New York and Philadelphia, and a global reach through their agency network, Huntsworth Health, evoke is comprised of marketing professionals dedicated to pioneering new and better ways to communicate between brands and people. Visit evoke interaction at evokeinteraction.com.