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Ilyssa Levins
President and Founder
Center for Communication Compliance
303 East 57th Street, Suite 21B
New York, NY 10022
212-361-9868
ilevins@CommunicationCompliance.com

llyssa Levins is president and founder of the Center for Communication Compliance (CCC), a boutique consultancy that specializes in healthcare risk communication and regulatory compliance, from drug development to sales and marketing.

Ilyssa has 30 years of healthcare communications experience, having spearheaded significant growth for Grey Global Group, one of the world's foremost communications firms. Over a period of two decades with Grey, her entrepreneurial accomplishments included launching the BrandEdge marketing consultancy, catapulting Grey's healthcare public relations (PR) practice to a top 10 global ranking, and leading a PR boutique, GTFH, to be named #1 in healthcare two years in a row.

Early in her career, Ilyssa recognized that regulatory compliance was an under-served area in the healthcare communication profession. In 1991, she founded the PR section of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication, an industry advocacy group focused on FDA regulatory policy and enforcement. However, there continued to be an unmet need for a standardized regulatory compliance curriculum for promotional agencies. Her priority upon leaving the corporate world was to establish a center for learning where regulatory compliance was a key focus.

To fill this industry need, Ilyssa founded CCC and launched the first standardized training courses, with corresponding certification tests, to enhance regulatory compliance in advertising/promotion, promotional medical education, and public relations. Most recently, the company identified other unmet needs: the first pertains to the need for increasing the role of communication professionals in the development and execution of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) components; the second, to the need for a basic course on drug development with a focus on clinical trials for professionals new to the pharmaceutical, biotech, and device industry.

Ilyssa is an industry spokesperson and a published author on regulatory compliance healthcare communication. She was the only healthcare executive to be named a Women Achiever of the Year by the YWCA of New York for the class of 2000, and is a Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) Rising Star. Her Board memberships include the HBA, where she served two terms as Director of Marketing Communication and is currently Director-at-Large, Business Development and Strategic Alliances. Ilyssa sits on the editorial board of the association's publication, HBAdvantage, and holds editorial board positions on two highly-regarded industry publications, Pharmaceutical Executive and Communiqué.

Ilyssa graduated Phi Beta Kappa from New York University with a degree in journalism and minors in public relations and Spanish.