Leading health care agency Lane Earl Cox is delighted to announce the appointment of Alison Squire as International Account Director.

Alison joins from HC&B Healthcare and has previously worked at leading agencies including Torre Lazur McCann Healthcare, Sudler & Hennessey and Paling Ellis KPR.

Alison is renowned for her strategic, communications analysis and project management skills. She is heavily results driven, a powerful motivator and an energetic team leader who is valued for her simple, straightforward and direct style. She will be leading the Abilify and Sustiva accounts for BMS and Caelyx for Schering-Plough.

Alison enjoys a challenge and has recently taken up canoeing with her first open water trip planned for early April.

As an IPA member since 2005, LEC has achieved IPA Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Accreditation for the second year running for the year 2008.

 Peter Hudspeth, LEC’s Client Services Director, said ‘...we are delighted with this news. IPA Continuous Professional Development Accreditation is a tribute to everything that has been accomplished with the agency’s people development activities’.

The past nine years of IPA CPD have given training and development a significantly higher place on the advertising industry’s agenda and has established a framework for best practice in attracting, retaining and developing talent.

The IPA’s CPD scheme encourages member agencies to provide developmental opportunities for staff, across all departments and skill disciplines. Individuals and their agencies share responsibility for ensuring that skills are constantly honed so that everyone operates at peak performance.

 LANE EARL COX, one of the UK’s leading healthcare communications companies, is pleased to announce two senior appointments to its creative and creative services departments.

Harry Armfield, Deputy Creative Director - Copy, joins from Langland where he worked on a number of key accounts. Harry has also worked at leading agencies such as Pan Communications, FCB Brussels, Saatchi & Saatchi and JWT Deltakos. Harry has experience across a broad range of therapy areas including: bacterial infection; HIV/AIDS; obesity; oncology; respiratory; urology and women’s health. Harry will be teamed with Kim Hughes, Deputy Creative Director - Art, at LEC.

Brian Cottee, previously at Grey Healthcare Group, joins LEC as Creative Services Manager. In addition to managing LEC’s busy internal studio, Brian will also oversee all aspects of production and further develop its comprehensive digital offering.

Jeff Daniels, Creative Director at LEC, commented: "Recent growth has stimulated us to expand our creative department significantly. Our strong client/agency relationships are predicated on our ability to deliver creativity across the board. The addition of Harry and Brian to our team will expand that capability. I have had the pleasure of working with both of them at previous agencies, and they will be working, variously, across our entire client portfolio."