Vincent J. Dollard, APR, is Associate Vice President for Communications for Emory University’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center. The Woodruff Health Sciences includes Emory Healthcare; Emory University School of Medicine; the Rollins School of Public Health; the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing; Yerkes National Primate Research Center; the Winship Cancer Institute, and Emory’s basic science research enterprise. In this role, he is responsible for strategic planning and implementation for communications, media relations, issues management, crisis communications, research communications, publications, social media, and internal communications within the WHSC. Dollard helped lead the intensive communications initiatives when the first Ebola virus disease patients to be treated in the U.S. were brought to Emory University Hospital in August 2014. Before joining Emory in 2001, Dollard served as Director of Communications for the Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources where he worked throughout Georgia and the Southeast on implementation and enforcement of state and federal environmental laws and regulations. Dollard also has worked at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, and with McGraw-Hill as an architectural reporter. Dollard is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America, is certified by PRSA in Reputation Risk Management and serves on the Georiga PRSA Leader Board. He is a 2011 Woodruff Leadership Academy Fellow, and a member of the Assocation of American Medical Colleges Group on Institutional Advancement. He volunteers with Meals on Wheels Atlanta.
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