HDMA Elects New Officers to Board of Directors

The Healthcare Distribution Management Association (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 d\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.”