Menighan Envisions Expanded Role for Pharmacists Tom has the acquaintance and abilities bare to advance APhA into the next bearing of pharmacy, area pharmacists are accustomed by patients, bloom affliction providers and legislators akin as analytical to accommodating care Menighan's ability and acquaintance as a pharmacist, volunteer, leader, stakeholder and advocate for the profession will accord him a solid foundation for his new role.
Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) July 2, 2009 -- The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) is admiring to advertise the accession of its new Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas E. Menighan, BSPharm, MBA. In February 2009, Menighan was appointed as APhA's Executive Vice President and CEO-Designate and began the alteration into his new role. He is the 26th pharmacist to serve in this role and succeeds Dr. John A. Gans who served in the aforementioned accommodation for the endure 20 years.
Thomas E. Menighan
A built-in of West Virginia, Menighan brings all-encompassing business, entrepreneurial, convenance and administration acquaintance to his new role, as able-bodied as the different acquaintance of accepting served in assorted advance positions and as a above agents affiliate for APhA. In 1974, he accustomed his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (BSPharm) from West Virginia University School of Pharmacy and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in 1990 from Averett College.
Menighan has served the profession in a array of capacities above-mentioned to accepting appointed as APhA's new leader. Most recently, he was President of SynTegra Solutions Inc., in Germantown, Maryland. The aggregation provides accumulation alternation and chargeback auditing and consulting in accident management, 340B Systems, anti-counterfeiting, and the technology of medication information. Earlier Menighan aswell founded SymRx, Inc., and developed CornerDrugstore.com©.
Pursuant to his ambitious endeavors, Menighan was actively complex with APhA, confined as admiral from 2001 to 2002 and as a affiliate of the APhA Board of Trustees amid 1995 and 2003. From 1987 to 1992, he was a chief APhA agents affiliate confined as chief administrator of alien affairs. During this time he managed membership, accompaniment affairs, accessible relations, new business development and convenance administration issues.
"Tom has the acquaintance and abilities bare to advance APhA into the next bearing of pharmacy, area pharmacists are accustomed by patients, bloom affliction providers and legislators akin as analytical to accommodating care," said APhA's accepted President Ed L. Hamilton. "Menighan's ability and acquaintance as a pharmacist, volunteer, leader, stakeholder and advocate for the profession will accord him a solid foundation for his new role."
Menighan's canicule as a practicing pharmacist began in 1974 with Thrift Drug Company and connected in 1978 if he founded the Medicine Shoppe in Huntington, West Virginia, which he endemic for 20 years. In accession to a acceptable convenance with a abundant focus on accommodating counseling and ache management, Menighan broadcast his Shoppe's compounding casework every year.
Menighan recognizes the amount that accepting an breath affiliate of a able affiliation has had on his able life. He is aswell actively acquainted of the ability that technology has played in revolutionizing pharmacy practice. Menighan will use these adventures to break in abutting acquaintance with APhA associates and added pharmacy pale holders through his claimed blog. Today, Menighan launched the APhA CEO Blog. His blog will accommodate acumen into the new leader's campaign and thoughts on activities of the association, the profession, and the bloom affliction association at a time if health affliction reform is at the top of the nation's political and claimed agenda.
Menighan's added able adventures cover administration of the PharMark Corporation, architect of RationalMed©, and accountant systems for states to conduct Drug Utilization Review for millions of accompaniment Medicaid enrollees. Since 1981, he has served as Founder, Pharmaceutical Director, Chief Financial Officer, and accomplice of Pharmacy Associates, Inc., a multi-state specialty pharmacy that today serves patients in abundant of the United States.
About the American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
The American Pharmacists Association, founded in 1852 as the American Pharmaceutical Association, represents added than 62,000 practicing pharmacists, biologic scientists, apprentice pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and others absorbed in advancing the profession. APhA, committed to allowance all pharmacists advance medication use and advanced accommodating care, is the first-established and better affiliation of pharmacists in the United States. APhA associates accommodate affliction in all convenance settings, including association pharmacies, bloom systems, abiding affliction facilities, managed affliction organizations, auberge settings, and the uniformed services.
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