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Healthcare Business Review proudly presents the Top 10 Healthcare Marketing Directors - 2026, recognizing leaders who strengthen how healthcare organizations communicate value and build patient trust. These professionals guide marketing strategy while aligning brand messaging with changing care expectations and organizational goals. Their leadership helps providers improve audience engagement while creating outreach strategies that support patient awareness and responsible growth in a competitive healthcare landscape across clinical and consumer-facing settings today.
Marketing Director, Intermountain Health
Chris Hugo’s career spans healthcare marketing, communications, agency strategy and consumer engagement roles. The progression of his work reflects a consistent focus on connecting organizational priorities with the needs, expectations and decision-making behavior of local communities.
Director of Marketing, Baptist Health
Debbie Nuttall Davis serves as Director of Marketing at Baptist Health. Her work sits at the meeting point of healthcare communication and patient access, where marketing has to make care options easier to understand without flattening the sensitivity of medical decisions. Her leadership centers on clarity and community relevance.
Marketing and PR Director, Willamette Valley Medical Center
Cyndi Leinassar, the Marketing and PR Director at Willamette Valley Medical Center, brings nearly three decades of experience in community relations, nonprofit and healthcare. Her relationship-driven approach shapes community engagement, authentic storytelling and communication between the medical center and the communities it serves