Release date: March 23, 2006
Contact: Nancy Seideman at 404-727-0640 or nseidem@emory.edu

Emory Appoints Sauder as New VP for Communications

Emory University has appointed Ron Sauder as the university's vice president of communications. Sauder, who most recently served as associate vice president for health sciences communications at Emory, began his new role March 1. As vice president, Sauder is responsible for overseeing a department that includes university media relations, university internal communications including Emory Report and health sciences communications.

Sauder joined Emory in 2001 as director of media relations for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and was promoted to associate vice president of health sciences communications in 2004, overseeing media relations, publications and special events programming for the health related divisions of the university.

Prior to Emory, Sauder worked in various communications roles at The Johns Hopkins University, including senior associate director of media relations and director of the Office of Consumer Health Information at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He also served as director of news and information services and was executive assistant to the president at Johns Hopkins University.

Sauder is co-author of a consumer health book and has been involved as an editor, consultant or contributor in many other print and electronic publishing projects, including the original InteliHealth website and the "Johns Hopkins Family Health Book" (HarperCollins). He began his career as a reporter for the Richmond-Times Dispatch in Virginia. Sauder is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and was a member of the inaugural class of Emory's Woodruff Leadership Academy.

Emory University is known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities. For nearly two decades Emory has been named one of the country's top 25 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, the state's largest and most comprehensive health care system.

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