PARSIPPANY, NJ (MARKET WIRE) Altum, a CommonHealth freestanding, full-service professional advertising and promotion company with global reach, spanning every marketing discipline with a focus on high-science and specialty markets, today announced the hire of Benny Granelli, PhD, as associate director of scientific communications. CommonHealth (www.commonhealth.com) is the world's leading healthcare-communications network and a WPP (NASDAQ: WPPGY) (www.wpp.com) company.