Current Position
Andrea Rothschild is a Senior Vice President in the Healthcare practice at Hill & Knowlton and is based in the Los Angeles office. In addition to practice management duties, Andrea serves as senior counsel to several healthcare clients, including the firm’s single largest client.

Prior History
For two decades Andrea has worked in the healthcare communications arena. Working in the D.C., New York and Los Angeles markets, her career began as a consultant to the National Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Communications.   Moving to the PR agency sphere (Hill & Knowlton and Manning, Selvage and Lee) in Washington D.C., New York and Los Angeles, she served as a public relations counsel to emerging and established biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical and patient advocacy clients. Her most recent experience includes 10 years as part of Amgen’s corporate communications and oncology marketing departments.  

Andrea has worked in a broad range of therapeutic areas including oncology, inflammation (RA, psoriasis), nephrology (CKD), cardiology, neurology (Parkinson’s), women’s health (osteoporosis, women’s health testing), mental health (depression), virology (HIV, Hep C), endocrinology (thyroid, diabetes). Andrea’s experience and core strengths include crisis and issues management, patient advocacy and alliance creation/management, development of communications programs with enduring materials, and media relations.

In her last role at Amgen as head of the Global Commercial Operations Communications team, Andrea lead a team of communicators responsible for the strategic public relations programming and issues management for the Company’s marketed and pipeline products. In this capacity, she was the team’s primary liaison between the corporate communications team and the executive leadership of both the sales and marketing and research and development organizations.

In addition to seven years in Corporate Communications, Andrea had the unique opportunity to spend three years as part of the Oncology marketing department at Amgen. There she co-led the first Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) television and print campaign for the company. She also created and executed direct-to-patient outreach programs including patient education materials, websites and educational forums.

Contact
Hill & Knowlton Inc.
1601 Cloverfield Boulevard
Suite 3000-N
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Tel: 310-633-9493
Fax: 310-633-9401