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HDMA ELECTS NEW OFFICERS TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ARLINGTON, VA—October 12, 2005—HDMA elected new officers to its Board of Directors at the recent 2005 HDMA Annual Leadership Forum. Effective immediately, HDMA’s new Chairman is Chris Mitiguy, Vice President of Burlington Drug Company. HDMA’s Vice Chairman is Mark Parrish, President and COO, Supply Chain Services – Pharmaceuticals, Cardinal Health, Inc.
The current HDMA Board of Directors includes: Ken Couch, President, Smith Drug
Company; John Dohmen, President and CEO, The F. Dohmen Company; David Moody,
CEO, N.C. Mutual Drug Company; and Mike Racioppi, President, Medical Group, Henry
Schein, Inc. The two newly-elected members of the Board are G.K. Richards, President,
Capital Wholesale Drug and David McQueary, Vice President, McQueary Bros
Members of the HDMA Executive Committee, composed of HDMA’s Officers, include: HDMA’s new Chairman and Vice Chairman, as well as Kurt Hilzinger, President and COO, AmerisourceBergen Corporation (Immediate Past Board Chairman); Paul Julian, Executive Vice President and Group President, McKesson Corporation; Eric Schuss, Chairman, Bellco Health; and Jon Borschow, President, Borschow Drug.
“I congratulate and welcome G.K. Richards and David McQueary to the 2005 HDMA
Board of Directors,” said HDMA President and CEO John M. Gray. “I look forward
to working with them, under the leadership of our new Board Chairman Chris Mitiguy,
in the coming year.
“On behalf of HDMA, I would like to thank immediate past Chairman Kurt Hilzinger for his year of leadership and strong commitment to the association,” continued Gray. “Kurt has been the impetus for positive and productive changes at HDMA, and I hope to build upon that positive momentum in 2006. I also thank outgoing Board Members Jay Levine, President and COO, Harvard Drug Group, and Marty Wilson, President and COO of D&K Healthcare Resources, Inc. for their service and counsel to HDMA and the Board.”
About HDMA
The Healthcare Distribution Management Association (HDMA) is the national association representing primary, full-service healthcare distributors. Each business day, the member companies of HDMA are responsible for ensuring that more than eight million prescription medicines and healthcare products are safely delivered to 145,000 pharmacies, hospitals, nursing homes, physician offices, clinics, government and other providers in all 50 states. This essential public health function is provided with tremendous efficiency, saving the nation’s healthcare system nearly $32 billion each year. HDMA and its members are the vital link in the healthcare system, working daily to provide value, remove costs and develop innovative solutions to deliver care safely and effectively. |
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