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SARATOGA SPRINGS – The Patient Experience Project (PEP), a patient-centric marketing and communications agency, has announced the hiring of Matthew Cornelius as director of patient engagement.
Cornelius provides oversight, strategic direction and leadership for “PEPpartners,” the agency’s patient relationship management offering. He is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Before joining PEP, Cornelius held director of business development and engagement director roles at Patient Health Perspectives, LLC in Chicago. Previously, he was a creative and digital media account director at Firstline Media, also in Chicago, where he oversaw accounts for such clients as Astra Zeneca, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and the Army Reserve.
Additionally, he has experience as a media relations manager, having developed and executed media strategies for clients that included Major League Baseball, Bayer, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson.
Cornelius earned a bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism and film, with honors, from Georgia State University in Atlanta, and a master’s degree in communications, public relations and advertising from DePaul University in Chicago.
