Lindsay Howell, who has 10 years of marketing/public relations experience, serves as the director of community relations for Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, N.C. She is responsible for overseeing all external and internal communications for the not-for-profit community hospital. She previously served as a public relations specialist for the hospital, developing and implementing marketing plans for the hospital’s strategic initiatives.

Prior to joining Pardee, Howell worked for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock as a public relations specialist. She also spent five years with Katcher Vaughn & Bailey Communications, a public relations firm in Nashville, Tenn., serving as an account executive and intern program supervisor.

Howell received a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America and the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society.