CLIO Healthcare Awards Final Deadline Approaching: August 26th

NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CLIO Healthcare Awards is now approaching the final deadline to enter submissions; all entries must be received by CLIO Healthcare no later than August 26th. The 3rd Annual CLIO Healthcare Awards will be held at the historic Paris Theatre in New York City followed by the after-party at LAVO, an exclusive nightclub just steps away from the Paris Theatre, on Thursday, November 10. To enter, please visit www.cliohealthcare.com. In order to make the submissions process easier, CLIO Healthcare has updated its entry system.

Each and every year, CLIO reviews its entry system and award show and makes the necessary changes to stay current with an ever-evolving industry. This year, CLIO Healthcare has made adjustments to its entry system to remain aligned with the healthcare industry and changing government regulations, as well as make the process easier to use and understand.

The new three-step system is simple:

1. Select your medium (Print, Television, Interactive, Out of Home, etc.)
2. Select your entry type (Pharmaceuticals, Devices & Diagnostics, Disease Awareness, Over-the-Counter, etc.)
3. Select your category (Print Ad, Banner Ad, Billboard, Sales Aid, etc.). 

For more information about the entry system, go to www.cliohealthcare.com/entries/mediums_and_categories.cfm

The CLIO Healthcare Awards will be executed using the same rigorous standards and commitment to excellence as in the past, but the new system levels the playing field to qualify and judge this particular and massive industry sector more fairly and appropriately.

Additionally, today CLIO Healthcare announced the complete juries for the 2011 competition -

The 3rd Annual CLIO Healthcare Awards Film/Film Technique/Radio Jury is as follows:

• Rich Levy (Film Chair), Chief Creative Officer, Draftfcb Healthcare, New York
• Marcia Goddard, EVP Creative Director, Torre Lazur McCann, Parsippany
• June Laffey, Creative Director, McCann Healthcare, Sydney
• Russell Speed, Creative Director, TBWA\Paling Walters, London
• Barry Leung, Regional Director, Bates 141 Asia, Beijing
• Carl Jones, VP Integrated Creative Director, Grey Canada, Toronto
• Steven Wold, Executive Creative Director, Jigsaw, Milwaukee

The 3rd Annual CLIO Healthcare Awards Print/Print Technique/Collateral/Out of Home/Design Jury is as follows:

• Helayne Spivak (Print Chair), Chief Creative Officer, Saatchi Wellness, New York
• Javier Agudo, Strategy & Creative Vice President, Ogilvy CommonHealth WW, Madrid
• Tim Brierly, Creative Director, GHG, North Sydney
• Robert Finkel, Chief Creative Director, Kane & Finkel, San Francisco/London
• Juergen Friedrich, Creative Director, Publicis Health, Cologne
• Markus Gut, Executive Creative Director, Advico Young & Rubicam, Zurich
• Angela Lustig, Creative Director, AbelsonTaylor, Chicago
• Sudhakar More, National Creative Director, S&H India, Mumbai
• Gaetan Namouric, EVP Creative Director, bleublancrouge, Montreal
• Jorge Soldevila, Director General Creativo, JWT Pharma, Mexico City
• Christian Stark, Creative Director, GSW Worldwide, Munich
• GersonVecchi, Partner/Chief Creative Director, Euro RSCG Life, Sao Paulo
• Dean Woolley, Creative Director, Woolley Pau, London

The 3rd Annual CLIO Healthcare Awards Interactive/Integrated/Innovative Jury is as follows:

• Guy Mastrion (Interactive Chair), Chief Global Creative Director, Palio, Saratoga Springs
• Sean Riley, Creative Director, McCann Healthcare Worldwide, Singapore
• Stefan Oevermann, Group Creative Director, CDM Munich, Munich
• Vineet Vijayraj Thapar, SVP Group Creative Director, Digitas Health, London
• Brit Till, SVP Creative Director, The CementBloc, New York
• Alaina Goetz, Creative Director, Eveo, San Francisco
• Rob Ulliman, Executive Creative Director, Razorfish Health, Philadelphia

The 3rd Annual CLIO Healthcare Awards Public Relations Jury is as follows:

• Lorna Weir (Public Relations Chair), President, Vox Medica Health Care Communications Inc., Philadelphia
• Pauline Kent, Director, Woolley Pau PR, London
• Eleanor Petigrow, Creative Strategy & Planning Leader, Chandler Chicco Companies, New York
• Richard Hayhurst, Joint Managing Director, Schwartz Communications, London
• Bruce Hayes, General Manager Health, Edelman, New York
• Lauren O'Brien, Director, WCG, London
• Helene Ellison, Chair/Global Healthcare Practice, Burson Marsteller, New York

To begin the festivities, CLIO Healthcare and Pharmapalooza have teamed up in a combined celebration that honors celebrities of the health care industry through their musical talents and professional accomplishment. Pharmapalooza, a charitable entertainment event that takes place on November 9, will tap into the sometimes hidden musical and vocal talent of healthcare advertising professionals to benefit The Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM). The winning Pharmapalooza band will take center stage for an encore presentation at the CLIO Healthcare awards ceremony in celebration of the charity and hard work our industry is known for. To purchase tickets to the 3rd Annual CLIO Healthcare Awards please visit: Purchase CLIO Healthcare Tickets.

For more information about the 3rd Annual CLIO Healthcare Awards, visit www.CLIOHealthcare.com. Follow the CLIO Healthcare Awards on your favorite social networks: Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

About The CLIO Healthcare Awards

The CLIO Healthcare Awards is an extension of The CLIO Awards, one of the world's most recognized awards competitions for advertising, design and communications, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2009. Healthcare accounts for more than one-third of the U.S. gross national product. It has become one of the most visible sectors of advertising, promotion and creative design in the last few years, particularly on TV and online. However, it is regulated differently and more stringently than traditional advertising and promotion. The CLIO Healthcare Awards will be executed using the same rigorous standards and commitment to excellence as the CLIO Awards, but levels the playing field to qualify and judge this particular and massive industry sector more fairly and appropriately.

About The CLIO Awards

The CLIO Awards is one of the world's most recognized awards competitions for advertising, design and communications. The CLIO Awards has maintained its original commitment to celebrate and reward creative excellence, honoring a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture. At the same time, the CLIO Awards remains focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work. To this day, CLIO's iconic statue is the most widely recognized and coveted symbol of the industry's creative accomplishments.

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