D. Stephen
Robins, M.D.
President
Susan Meister
Executive
Vice President
D. Stephen Robins, M.D.
President
Stephen Robins received his M.D. training and degree at Guy's Hospital, University of London, and subsequently specialized in and practiced both internal and family medicine. After eight years of balancing clinical practice with medical editing and patient education, he set out to combine his medical and communications interests in integrating high quality scientific and medical information into effectively designed media.
Before co-founding Communicore in 1985, he spent 11 years building and directing domestic and international medical communications and clinical research divisions in the multinational pharmaceutical industry, specifically Eli Lilly, Syntex, and Allergan, the last as Vice President for Clinical Research & Development, Medical Affairs & Communications.
He has edited several medical publications and has written for the professional and lay press on a wide variety of medical subjects. He has had extensive international experience in organizing and moderating symposia and task forces, in designing exhibits, and in writing and directing video productions, drawing on his additional avocational experience as a theater producer and director. He was an early innovator in the design of software for the management of clinical research and medical communications.
As President of Communicore, he is responsible for strategic planning,
medical and scientific quality assurance, and overall management of the
organization's business affairs. Primary program activities include
chairing
the meetings of Communicore's multiconstituency advocacy Consortia and
Task
Forces as well as creative direction of all printed, graphic and video
productions.
Susan Meister
Executive Vice
President
She began her career as a proceedings editor and international congress organizer at Excerpta Medica, the Netherlands-based foundation founded by the United Nations following World War II to publish medical information in the English language. It is now part of Elsevier, the world's largest medical publisher.
She then founded the non-profit Council for Medical Communications in New York, the first organization dedicated to interdisciplinary professional education on new pharmaceutical therapies whose programs were supported by the National Institutes of Health and major pharmaceutical companies. During this period, she pioneered the use of international multipoint satellite television in medical communications.
She later gained high-level corporate management experience through senior communications positions in several leading healthcare corporations, including American Hospital Supply and Revlon Healthcare, and finally as a Vice President for Health Services at Burson-Marsteller, before co-founding Communicore. She has also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine.
As Executive Vice President of Communicore, she is responsible for strategic planning and overseeing issue, crisis, and risk management activities, as well as media positioning and strategy.
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