Andrew Corner, APR, is a professor of practice in the Department of Advertising + Public Relations at Michigan State University.Prior to joining the department and forming Cornerstone PR, Corner spent eight years with The Rossman Group, a Michigan-based, statewide issue management consultancy where he provided strategic counseling and account management services for clients in multiple industries. His background also includes a decade in the communications department of Ingham Regional Medical Center (Lansing, Mich.), where he developed expertise in media relations, crisis management and internal communication programs. In his final position there, as system manager of marketing operations, he had operational responsibility for all of the health system’s organizational and internal communication initiatives, media relations, trade shows and health fairs, publications and Internet applications.He was also president and owner of Cornerstone Public Relations, a Michigan-based public relations firm specializing in strategic communications planning, project management, copywriting, media relations and events, and crisis communications.Corner is accredited in public relations by the Public Relations Society of America. He holds a master’s degree in public relations management and a bachelor’s degree in communication from Michigan State University.Specialties: strategic communications planning, project management, copywriting and editing, crisis communications, media relations and events.