M3 Group (www.m3.com) and Medcenter today announced an exclusive partnership that provides doctors in Latin America, Spain and Portugal with access to a wide range of content from M3’s MDLinx, Doctors.net.uk, and the SmartestDoc services. Both parties also announced Medcenter’s entry into M3’s Networks in Health, an international alliance of online physician communities that provides pharmaceutical, medical device, and other healthcare companies services for reaching and engaging doctors across Europe, the Americas and Asia.

M3 operates Doctors.net.uk, the UK’s largest physician website, MDLinx.com, the leading U.S. website for specialty physicians, and M3.com, Japan’s leading physician network. This partnership expands M3’s Networks in Health, which will now offer physician reach in the U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Sweden, Turkey, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the U.S., Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil. This new partnership enables the pharmaceutical industry to directly engage and communicate with more than 1.5 million physician members worldwide.

Aki Tomaru, Chief Executive Officer of M3 USA, said: “This partnership with Medcenter enhances our efforts to cover the global markets. We are pleased to make our high quality medical content available in Latin America, Spain and Portugal in local languages to local medical professionals. The broadened Networks in Health alliance will better serve the pharmaceutical industry’s increasing needs of communicating with doctors globally.”

Daniel Sanmarco, Chief Executive of Medcenter, said: “We are very pleased to have M3 Group as our partner. This agreement ensures Medcenter continues to serve doctors with the highest quality medical and scientific content. As the Latin American pharmaceutical market continues to grow far in excess of global averages, we provide companies with a single point of contact to access the largest regional network of physicians and healthcare professionals.”

About Medcenter

With more than 480,000 active physicians in its network, Medcenter is the leading online marketing and communications firm focused on healthcare professionals in Latin America and the Iberian peninsula. Medcenter creates digital marketing campaigns driven by deep scientific and medical knowledge as well as providing its physicians network with access to updated news, peer reviewed journals and other information sources on a daily basis.

About M3

M3 Group operates in the US, Asia, and Europe with more than 1 million physician members globally via its physician websites such as www.m3.com, www.mdlinx.com, www.doctors.net.uk, and www.medigate.net. M3, Inc., a publicly traded company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (JP: 2413) provides services to healthcare and life science industry to reach out to their audience. M3 services include medical education, ethical drug promotion, market research, clinical development, job recruitment, and clinic appointment services. M3 has offices in Tokyo, Washington DC, and Ft. Washington, Oxford, London and Seoul.