Roberta N. Clarke, Associate Professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, was one of the first experts in the field of health care marketing. Professor Clarke is the 1995 recipient of the American Marketing Association's prestigious Philip Kotler Award for Excellence in Healthcare Marketing and was former President of the Society for Healthcare Planning and Marketing, a national professional society of 3500 members affiliated with the American Hospital Association. Dr. Clarke won the Health Care Marketer of the Year Award from the American College of Health Care Marketing in 1985, the first year it was awarded. With Philip Kotler, she co-authored Marketing for Health Care Organizations, considered to be the leading text in the field of health care marketing.