Pharmaceutical companies, their agencies and supplier partners were invited to submit nominations. The Top 25 List highlights a broad range of people with DTC responsibilities, including product managers, DTC specialists, media directors and specialists in relationship marketing efforts.

And the 2006 Top 25 DTC Marketers of the Year are… ( listed alphabetically)

Matthew Arm Marketing Director, Vytorin Merck/Schering Plough
Keli Bennett Director Consumer Marketing, Humira Abbott
Michele Benton Senior DTC Product Manager, Vesicare GSK
Ann Cunningham Consumer Brand Manager, Cymbalta Eli Lilly
Eric Dube Product Director, Coreg GSK
Herb Ehrenthal VP, Global Advertising and Marketing Schering-Plough
Cheryl Fassak Senior Director, Abilify Bristol-Myers Squibb
Jeff Fayer Associate Director, Femara Novartis
Tara Fish Senior Product Manager, Lovenox Sanofi-Aventis
Judi Georgitis Senior Product Manager, Requip GSK
Lori Jansen Senior Product Manager, Remicade Centocor
Alexander Marichal Director Consumer Marketing, Sana La Rana Pfizer
Faye Morin Consumer Brand Director, Toprol-XL AstraZeneca
Anne Myers Neuroscience Patient Marketing Manager Eli Lilly
Jay Popli Director Consumer Marketing, Lunesta Sepracor
Pam Rasmussen VP, Corporate Communications Digene
Jim Robins Senior Product Manager, Avodart GSK
Robin Sears Senior Director Dry Eye Franchise Allergan
Deborah Seifert Senior Director, Women's Healthcare Marketing Wyeth
Kristen Sharron Director, Team Leader, Zoloft / Indiplon Pfizer
Joe Shields Director Consumer Strategy, Enbrel Wyeth
Paul Silverman Media Director Novartis
Tom Snow Director of Consumer Marketing, Reproductive Health Serono
Meryl Weinreb Consumer Brand Director, Oncology AstraZeneca
Tracy Wise Senior Promotions Manager, Nexium AstraZeneca


The annual Top 25 DTC Marketers of the Year was established in 2001 to provide industry recognition for the people who handle much of the DTC work at drug companies. “Agencies have many industry awards for their ads, but the individual drug company marketer has few opportunities to be publicly recognized,” said Ehrlich. “It is time to recognize the faces behind prominent direct-to-consumer campaigns, because their hard work and dedication to fostering the industry is often not recognized. The awardees were selected from many worthy candidates. We intentionally did not rank within the Top 25 because each contribution is uniquely significant.”

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