VMLY&R Appoints Sean Rooney to Newly Created Role of Chief Science Officer

Former Omnicom medical education shop head will lead promotional science team

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Like many large agencies, VMLY&R is seeing the opportunities in the healthcare sector and is investing more in health and healthcare marketing. To bolster its commitment to the sciences, VMLY&R has hired Sean Rooney, PhD, as its chief science officer, a new position at the agency.

Rooney, who holds a PhD in Immunology from Harvard, spent the past 15 years leading Omnicom’s medical education shop, the Scienomics Group. At VMLY&R he will lead the promotional science team and will help drive the integration of science across the agency’s expanding roster of health sector clients and business, building differentiated and evidence-based brand narratives.

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