Heidi Creighton

Heidi Creighton is a veteran Boston-based communications strategist for early-stage startups in the life sciences and digital health sectors. You may click the button above to visit her website featuring capabilities and recommendations and here's a short bio:

Heidi Creighton is an award-winning communications executive hailing from world-leading corporate, agency, and startup environments.

Creighton began her career in communications as the Director of Public Relations for an advertising agency northwest of Boston, where she was responsible for building and maintaining the agency's PR clientele. Creighton then moved on to the Top 10 PR agency, Creamer Dickson Basford (absorbed by Havas PR), where she helped open and build the Boston Technology Office. Creighton went on to work as Director of Public Relations for IDG corporate, the world's #1 tech media company.

As technology and healthcare began to converge, she founded Creighton HealthTech to provide startups with comprehensive, scalable, and cost-effective PR services.

A hallmark of Creighton's success is her remarkable ability to position CEOs as thought leaders and secure high-level media opportunities that put them in the national spotlight.

Creighton was instrumental in launching and promoting the annual Powering Precision Health Summit in Boston, a leading forum and national platform to advance the science of precision medicine, now in it's sixth year.

In 2017, Creighton was appointed by Governor Charlie Baker to serve on the Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health and Human Services Professions.

She has received numerous awards and accolades for her work in the field of public and media relations, including the ACE™ Award from Top 10 PR agency Creamer Dickson Basford, and the Superior Achievement in Television Media Relations Award from North American Precis Syndicate.

Creighton has authored countless articles, including a Social Media item in the Annual Media Training Guidebook, published by PR News Press, and a 22-page guidebook for aspiring PR professionals published by Ragan Communications.

Creighton received a B.A. in English from the University of Southern Maine where she served as Advisor for the University's English Students Association. She spends her time between Boston and the coast of Maine and is a published poet and proud Finnish-American.