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    Lions Health adds to speakers lineup

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    CANNES, France --

    Lions Health, the inaugural global festival and awards celebrating creativity in healthcare marketing and communications set to take place in the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, June 13-14, will welcome to the stage a speaker line-up that will include some of the most awarded creatives in healthcare and top marketers at the forefront of the industry from around the world.

    “Seminars at Lions Health are designed to explore how creativity can help transform the sector”, said Louise Benson, Lions Health festival director. “Thought leaders and industry experts will take to the stage to showcase great ideas that push boundaries, deliver fresh insight and thinking, and lead the debates that drive communications in the industry forward.”

    Additional speakers who will share their expertise with the audience include:

    Jim Stengel, former chief marketing officer of Procter & Gamble and author of Grow, and Digitas Health creative chief Alexandra von Plato, discuss how a new generation of creative leaders will transform healthcare marketing as we know it at their session “Building an Inspired Organisation Now–PHCG.”

    Rich Levy, chief creative officer, Draftfcb Healthcare; Jill Weingarten, VP sr. recruiter of Greenberg Kirshenbaum; and Megan Miller, graduate of S.I. Newhouse School of Communication will reveal why it’s more alluring than ever for the brightest talent to apply their skills to improving global health.

    Lakish Hatalkar, Novartis OTC New Growth Opportunities Franchise, general manager and Jeremy Cohen, Edeleman’s Europe & CIS chair for Business and Social Purpose, will explore using creativity to build a responsible brand by applying science, innovation, communications and creativity expertise to society’s biggest health challenges.

    Chris Duffey, sr. VP and group creative director of Sudler & Hennessy, with guests including  Google’s Katie Erbs, head of rich media, Northern and Central Europe, will discuss the complexities of marketing health messages through mobile due to the sheer scale of devises being used by physicians, patients and consumers in the ever shifting landscape of technology. They will demonstrate how clear, creative ideas can cut through the confusion and deliver engaging mobile experiences that improve healthcare outcomes.

    The first Lions Health Festival will culminate in the first Lions Health trophies being presented to the winners at a dedicated awards ceremony taking place on June 14.




    Tony Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95

    Friday, January 17, 2025
    Actor Laurence Olivier, center, with his wife Joan Plowright, left, and actress Lauren Bacall at the U.S. premiere of Lord Olivier's only Shakespearean production made exclusively for television, "King Lear," in New York, May 3, 1983. (AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez, File)

    Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

    In a statement Friday, her family said Plowright died the previous day at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England, surrounded by her loved ones.

    "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire," the family said. "We are so proud of all Joan did and who she was as a loving and deeply inclusive human being."

    Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

    From the 1950s to the 1980s, Plowright racked up dozens of stage roles in everything from Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" to William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." She stunned in Eugene Ionesco's "The Chairs," and George Bernard Shaw's totemic two female roles "Major Barbara" and "Saint Joan."

    "I've been very privileged to have such a life," Plowright said in a 2010 interview with The Actor's Work. "I mean it's magic and I still feel, when a curtain goes up or the lights come on if there's no curtain, the magic of a beginning of what is going to unfold in front of me."

    The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in her honor.

    Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, her mother ran an amateur drama group and Plowright was... Read More

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