CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Elissa Curtis

Where Strategy Meets Creativity in Healthcare

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"My work is about making the complex comprehensible — and giving healthcare brands the clarity and credibility they need to lead."

I've spent more than 20+ years at the intersection of creative strategy and healthcare — working alongside C-suite leaders, clinical teams, commercial organizations, and patients to build brands that don't just look brilliant, but work hard.

What drew me to this space — and keeps me here — is the importance of it. When the brand is a specialty pharmacy, a payer platform, or a market access initiative, the creative decisions make a difference. Getting the messaging right, earning trust quickly, and making complexity feel navigable isn't just craft. It's responsibility. That's what I bring to every team  and every creative I mentor — a deep belief that doing this work well always matters.

Leadership Philosophy

Strategy  with aesthetics
Every creative decision starts with a business question. What does this organization need to be believed? What does this audience need to act?
People make the work
I've built and mentored multidisciplinary teams for over a decade. The culture around the work shapes the work itself — always.
Clarity over complexity
Healthcare is inherently complex. My job is to find the single true thing — then express it across every channel with consistency and force.
Earned specialization
Deep domain expertise in specialty pharmacy, market access, and omnichannel pharma — built over years, not weeks.

Career Highlights

2025-2026

Director of Creative
Elevate Health Technologies

Led end-to-end corporate brand creation for Elevate Health Technologies and the sub brand, OnePulse Connect — naming, identity, and launch campaign for a health technology platform connecting providers, patients, pharma manufacturers, and payers. Platform reached 2M+ patient lives across 29 states.

2024-2025

Director of Creative
RxAccess Partners

Led creative strategy and branding for a pharmaceutical market access consultancy, developing value and access messaging, commercialization materials, integrated campaigns, presentations, and sales enablement tools. Partnered with executive leadership on RFPs, client presentations, and new business initiatives.

2021-2024

Creative Director
AscellaHealth

Led enterprise rebranding and ongoing creative strategy for a global specialty pharmacy leader. Directed omnichannel campaigns across payer, patient, and provider segments. Stevie® Award winner, Best Marketing Group 2023.

2017-2021

Creative Director
Mota9 Creative

Directed creative strategy and 360 marketing campaigns for pharmaceutical clients including Bristol Myers Squibb — earning Agency of Record status through quality of work and deep patient access expertise.

2012-2016

Creative Director
Asembia

Defined the visual identity for the Asembia Specialty Pharmacy Summit across six consecutive years — growing the conference to 5,000+ attendees and establishing it as the largest US healthcare conference focused on specialty pharmacy.

Early career

Art Director & Designer
Healthcare agencies & in-house teams

Built foundational expertise across pharma advertising, managed care, and patient communications — developing the healthcare fluency that informs every project today. Also served as Adjunct Professor at Montclair State, RVCC, and DeVry University.

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