Aligning CRM with Marketing Strategy: Building Stronger Partnerships and Better Results

A new eHealthcare Strategy & Trends webinar with insights from LionShare

Wednesday | August 26, 2026 | 2 p.m. Eastern

Panelists:

• Orla Seidel, Director, CRM & Digital Marketing, Atlantic Health
• Rachel M. Totaro, MBA, Director, Digital Strategy, FMOL Health
• Jerry Hobbs, President and co-founder, Prairie Dog
• Laura Lee Jones, Founder and CEO, LionShare

Moderated by:

• Therese Lockemy, Founder and CEO, Inner Path Digital, L.L.C

Join us as our panelists explore how you can:

• Connect CRM priorities to broader marketing, brand, growth, and patient engagement goals.
• Create shared goals across marketing, CRM, digital, data, IT, operations, and clinical teams.
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, decision-making, and workflows across teams.
• Identify high-value CRM use cases, including patient acquisition, retention, reactivation, audience profiling, and service line growth.
• Use CRM insights to better understand patient populations, market opportunities, and campaign audiences.

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