Bedrock appoints Emily Howman to lead scientific services team

Bedrock Healthcare Communications has appointed Emily Howman to lead its scientific services team in a move designed to reinforce its core medical communications offering. In taking up the newly-created position of head of scientific services Howman will also join the med comms agency’s senior management team. She said: “The energy, creativity, and innovation of this dynamic agency shine through and I am thrilled to join the Bedrock team at such an exciting time for the company.” Originally from New Zealand, Howman joins Bedrock Healthcare Communications with almost 20 years’ experience in medical strategy and communications. After gaining a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Melbourne she went on to complete post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford. Howman moved to the med comms sector in 2002, spending nearly a decade at KnowledgePoint360 as its scientific director before serving as a director at Synergy Biomedical.