Tim Hawkins Email & Phone Number

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Media relations for multiple service lines including neurosciences, heart and vascular, transplant, research, innovations and others; Media training for experts• Speech writing• Internal, external, brand journalism and social media communications• On-call, issues management, crisis communications• Spectrum Health Tedx organizing/training committee• Significant accomplishments: Increased media coverage in several service lines with notable national coverage including: ABC News, ABC News Radio, CBS News, ESPN, USA Today, Fox News Channel, Associated Press, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle and others; Awarded five West Michigan PRSA Gold PRoof Awards for Media Relations and Feature Story Writing (2014-17)

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Media relations for research breakthroughs in the areas of cancer and cell biology, neurodegenerative science, skeletal disease and tumor microenvironment, and structural and systems biology; Media training for experts• Community relations/ tours and presentations to visiting groups• Speech writing• Brand standards and usage development• Internal, external, online, marketing, fundraising, exhibit, signage, event and social media communications• Significant accomplishments: Increased media coverage from 198 print, broadcast, and online stories recorded in 2007 to more than 3,000 in 2012; Generated coverage in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CBS Early Show, Chicago Tribune, NPR, Associated Press and others; Created materials and campaigns to help triple fundraising results from less than $1 million annually to more than $3 million between 2006 and 2010; Shared Communicator and Telly awards for work on documentary film and television commercials

Goshen, Indiana

• Marketing, communications, PR and grant writing • Chaired Multicultural Communications Task Force • Hispanic-Latino community liaison/marketing advisor • Market research, focus groups and consumer polls• Award programs • Significant Accomplishments: Raised more than $100,000 in grants to support cancer clinical trials; Produced comprehensive plan to improve services to limited and non-English-speaking patients in hospital, primary care offices, and throughout health system; Drafted proposal and coordinated information gathering for Goshen Health System’s fifth place finish in 2006 Best Places to Work in Indiana program

B.A., English

M.Ed., Education

Activities and Societies: Teachers in International Schools - San Jose, Costa Rica 1998 Co-Valedictorian