Academic Network News

With enhanced medical leadership, Academic Network expands its virtual medical affairs services for food, beverage, healthcare and pharmaceutical companies

PORTLAND, ORE., June 24, 2008 – Award-winning Academic Network LLC, a leading medical and health research and communications company, today announced that former Assistant US Surgeon General Woodie Kessel, MD, MPH, has joined the firm as Senior Scientific Advisor. Spurred on by a sales growth record of nearly 300%, Academic Network adds Dr. Kessel to its team of medical experts to enhance the company’s medical & health consulting, medical advisory services, and virtual medical affairs department.

Award-winning medical communications firm enhances social media services to help clients engage customers and patients where they are most apt to gather information -- online

Portland, Ore. (June 23, 2008) — Academic Network, an award-winning medical and health communications firm, is now offering new services to help clients practice safe, protected consumer engagement in the growing world of Health 2.0 -- the use of social media for collaboration between patients, caregivers, medical professionals and other stakeholders. Because the trend toward Health 2.0 is growing so rapidly, Academic Network has started utilizing social media platforms to gather consumer information on new products, recruit patients for clinical trials and help clients successfully build, monitor, manage and track their online reputation as they engage with consumers online.

Innovative Portland-based company nominated by the Mayor’s Office

Portland, Ore. – Inc. Magazine has named Academic Network, a medical and health communications firm, number 48 on the Tenth Annual Top Inner City 100 list which recognizes the fastest growing inner city companies in America. Extraordinary growth is the predominant trait of the 2008 Inner City 100, a ranking created by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Inc. Magazine.

Recently named one of the fastest growing private small businesses in Oregon and a top diversity-owned business, this health education and communications firm serves pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries.

Portland’s Academic Network Gains National Recognition as one of the Top 10 Small Businesses in Oregon

Portland, OR (January 30, 2008) -- In recognition of the economic power of small, woman-owned and multicultural businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nation’s leading multicultural internet site, has named Academic Network LLC, a unique health education and communications agency, as one of the “top 10 small businesses in Oregon” (Div100). Academic Network also ranked 5th on the list of Top 100 woman-owned businesses, and 8th among top 100 diversity-owned businesses in Oregon.