Karen Buchsbaum – Associate
Karen Buchsbaum is an award winning consultant in the field of healthcare communications and provides healthcare writing services. Capabilities include covering medical, business and consumer topics, as well as dealing with patients, staff and physicians.
She provides support at any level, including: magazine articles, newsletter content, annual reports, backgrounders, white papers, brochures, advertorials, editorials, ghost-written material, news releases, business documents and reports. A recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from PRSA’s Miami Chapter, Karen has received more than 100 national, regional and local awards for healthcare communications programs.
Professional highlights include:
- Healthcare communications consultant with more than 30 years experience in public relations and marketing
- Worked eight years in-house for hospitals: Public Relations for a 200-bed community hospital; Director of Marketing and Communications for a 500-bed, not-for-profit tertiary medical center; and Director of Public Relations for a 285-bed Catholic hospital
- Founded and managed a healthcare communications consulting firm for close to 20 years: represented more than 100 healthcare clients; designed and implemented a wide variety of successful communications programs
- Served as pro bono public relations advisor to numerous community organizations
- Associate Director & Public Relations Director of county-wide public/private partnership for the 1976 Bicentennial
- B.S. in Communications, University of Tennessee, Knoxville