Erik became a healthcare PR specialist almost by accident. Upon taking his first PR job, he was added to a team managing the account of a large community hospital system. He fell in love, and while he's served clients in different industries over the years while working for agencies like Fleishman Hillard and Sabatino Day, his passion has remained in healthcare. He has used his ability to understand healthcare trends and challenges to help clients engage physicians, legislators and other key opinion leaders while also providing strategic guidance and serving as a skilled scientific writer.
Before joining Amendola Communications, Erik served as the corporate PR and Content Strategy lead for Akron, Ohio-based the Smithers Group, where he supported the group's portfolio of companies, which provide third-party laboratory testing (aka Contract Research) of products and materials in a range of industries including pharmaceutical, chemical, automotive and more. Prior to his time at Smithers, Erik spent the majority of his career in the marketing communications agency world where he used his talents on behalf of clients such as Thermo Fisher Scientific, bioMeÌrieux, Image IQ (now ERT), BIOTRONIK, OsteoSymbionics and others. He holds a BA in Journalism from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.