The Healthcare PR Experts

With more than 70 combined years of healthcare IT PR and marketing experience, our leadership team brings together a rare mix of vision, creativity, and industry knowledge. Our complementary strengths — spanning PR and marketing strategy, thought leadership-driven storytelling, and deep client and industry relationships — act as a force multiplier, powering an agency where bold ideas meet precise execution.

Leadership Team

Our clients benefit not just from individual expertise, but from a team that has grown up in this industry together, anticipating trends, navigating complexity, and delivering results that matter. At Aria, our collective intelligence isn't a differentiator — it's the foundation.

Scott Collins

Scott Collins

President and CEO

Health tech PR veteran, Scott leads Aria with 30 years of strategy, positioning, and thought leadership expertise.

Jessica Cohen

Jessica Cohen

Executive Vice President

The only partner who has spent her entire career at Aria, Jessica brings over 20 years of healthcare PR expertise and deep client and media relationships built from the ground up.

Ross Homer

Ross Homer

Senior Vice President

Healthcare PR leader with 25 years of agency and in-house experience, Ross drives results for clients across the care continuum.

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The Aria Difference

How We Build Authority in Healthcare

We do not come with a standardized process that we run every new client through. What we bring instead is a way of thinking — shaped by over a quarter century of healthcare experience — that we adapt to each client's market moment, competitive position, and goals. We are boutique by design, because template thinking produces template results.

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Strategy

We Find What Moves the Needle

Most agencies open with a playbook. We open with questions. What makes your company genuinely different? What does your specific audience — a CMO at a regional health system, a CIO facing interoperability mandates — actually care about right now? What position in the market is unclaimed? The answers shape everything we do: messaging, media targets, the ideas we'll fight to place. That work up front is what separates coverage that moves markets from coverage that fills a clip report.

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Execution

We Make It Impossible to Ignore

Strategy becomes visible through craft. Our pitches are built on genuine reporter relationships — the kind that come from years of knowing what Fierce Healthcare covers, what Modern Healthcare needs, and when the Wall Street Journal is ready to look at healthcare IT. We write bylines that earn placement based on merit, not a called-in favor. And unlike agencies that assign your account to junior staff after the pitch, our senior people are doing the work on every account.

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Results

We Measure What Counts

Clip counts are easy to manufacture. Market movement is harder, and it's the only thing that matters. Aria measures success by whether your audience's perception has shifted, whether you own a conversation you didn't before, or whether coverage opened a door or influenced a deal. It's why some of our client relationships span decades, and why executives who have worked with us once have a habit of bringing us with them wherever they go next.

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Join Us

We're looking for people who are as passionate about healthcare as we are.

We want people who are genuinely curious about healthcare, who follow the industry because they find it fascinating, and who understand that great PR in this space requires real knowledge, not just surface-level media relationships. Our people work hard, take their clients seriously, and find real satisfaction in doing right by them.

In return, we treat everyone with the same fairness and respect we expect from them, with flexible working arrangements, unlimited PTO, and benefits that reflect how much we value the people who make this place what it is. Sound like you?