Kelly Dencker is a senior vice president and director of Health Care at Coyne PR where he’s engaged in all aspects of the health care business including strategic and creative planning and account management, new business development, digital health communications, issues management, and the creation of new products and services. He works closely with the firm’s largest clients including Medco, Quest Diagnostics and GTx.

Dencker joins Coyne PR from MS&L Group where he was director of Health Care for the New York office. During nearly 20 years with MS&L, he worked on more than 30 new product introductions and managed several award-winning campaigns and high-profile launches within the pharmaceutical and consumer health categories. Notably, Kelly led launch campaigns for such brands and programs as Cialis, Xolair, Zyrtec and InfantSEE. Further, he worked closely with the agency’s largest clients including Daiichi Sankyo, Genentech, Lilly, Philips, Roche, sanofi-aventis, Sanofi Pasteur and Solvay.

Over the years Kelly’s cultivated communications expertise in the areas of men’s health, children’s health, respiratory health, vision care and urology, to name a few. His passion is consumer health communications, and Kelly has forged long-standing strategic partnerships between his clients and leading advocacy and professional organizations.

He is an adjunct professor within the Graduate Program in Public Relations and Corporate Communications at New York University. Kelly attended Susquehanna University where he earned a B.A. in Public Relations.