GANDHI JOINS SHANDWICK AS VP

The Twin Cities office of Weber Shandwick today announced that Shireen Gandhi, APR, has joined the agency as vice president and will work on accounts in the healthcare and public affairs practices.

Prior to joining Weber Shandwick, Gandhi spent eight years leading communications programs, providing strategic media relations counsel and statewide crisis communications as vice president of communications and member relations, assistant vice president, and director of communications for the Minnesota Hospital Association in Minnesota.

As an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), Gandhi served as president of the Minnesota chapter in 2005. She has also worked as a communications manager and marketing and public relations specialist for a health system and level-one trauma hospital in California where she was responsible for internal and external communications, including Web sites, media relations, online newsletters, grassroots and legislative and public relations strategies. Gandhi also is a member of the board of directors for Portico Healthnet, an organization which works to reduce the number of people without health care services in Minnesota.