HBA Star Volunteer*
DARIA BLACKWELL NAMED THE 2011 STAR VOLUNTEER
Daria Blackwell, healthcare marketing consultant and former managing partner of advertising agency Sudler & Hennessey Inc, is our 2011 Star Volunteer. She will be formally recognized at the 22nd annual “Woman of the Year” (WOTY) Luncheon on Thursday, May 5, 2011 – the premier event of the year for the healthcare community attended by over 2,000 industry leaders.
“I am grateful to be honored by my peers for my contributions to this great organization,” said Daria. “I am so proud to be a member of the HBA… and so humbled to be recognized in the presence of so many deserving, high achieving women.”
Each year, the HBA honors a star volunteer who stands apart as a truly exemplary role model for others, and who has demonstrated a long-term commitment to furthering the HBA’s goals. Daria Blackwell is a highly-regarded expert in strategic marketing to healthcare professionals and patients. Her wide range of specialties include marketing to women and women physicians, and marketing with cultural competence. She was president at both Bozell Global Healthcare and the Knowledge Clinic Inc, and was managing partner of Sudler & Hennessey LLC. Daria’s career path includes positions at Roche Laboratories.
Daria’s longstanding volunteer commitment to the HBA has amazing depth and breadth. She has served on both the board of directors and the advisory board. As HBA president in 2004, she led the reorganization of the HBA into an umbrella non-profit corporation with nine chapters and affiliates in the US. She expanded the HBA into Europe in 2006. Daria served as past-president of HBA Europe in 2008, co-chair of the ACE Award Committee in 2007-2008, and mentor to HBA’s Mid-Atlantic and Europe Chapters, as well as member of the editorial board of the HBAdvantage magazine.
Congratulations Daria!
2010 Charlene Prounis, managing partner, Flashpoint Medica
2009 Barbara Pritchard, president of The Pritchard Group & Intermedica, Inc.
2008 Anne Camille Talley, principal, Health Leaders Consultancy
2007 Shellie Caplan, president, Caplan Associates, Inc.
2006 Sharon Callahan, president, Summit Grey
2005 Donna K. Ramer, president, StrategCations, Inc.
2004 Founding Presidents of First Seven Chapters:
- ATLANTA Jan Hannon, president, Envision Communications, Inc.
- BOSTON Karla Gonye, national director, HBA
- CHICAGO Kimberly Farrell, CEO/president, Unlimited Performance Training, Inc.
- INDIANA Teresa Pascarelli, president & COO, DCL Medical Laboratories
- MID-ATLANTIC Susan Torroella, president, Columbia MedCom Group
- METRO Charlene Prounis, president, Corbett Accel New York
- SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Gayathri Koundinya, senior manager, Commercial Operations, CV Therapeutics
2003 Stephanie G. Phillips, PhD, president, Project House, Inc.
2002 Mariana Palacios, partner, The Trillium Group, LLC
2001 Britta Herlitz, president, Herlitz Healthcare: A Communications Company
2000 Helen Eldridge, director of market research, Ortho Biotech Products L.P.
1999 Susan W. Youdovin, president, B&Y Communications
*Titles reflect positions at the time award was presented