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The Giving Center
Supporting Managed Care Pharmacy
Fidel Valenzuela, PharmD, Establishes With over 24 years in pharmacy utilization management, and
more than 12 years of hands-on experience auditing PBMs,
$20,000 Scholarship Endowment for Dr. Valenzuela incorporates his unique perspectives of the
pharmacy benefits industry into his overall client management
Managed Care Pharmacy portfolio, and has been an excellent Preceptor for WesternU
College of Pharmacy student pharmacists since 2011.
By Bill Burrows, Director of Development
“I am excited about the work being done at WesternU’s
This past December, 2014, Dr. Fidel Valenzuela, President and College of Pharmacy,” Valenzuela said, “and through my
CEO of Cadre Rx, a pharmacy management consulting firm, endowment, I want to encourage those students who are
committed to establishing a new scholarship endowment with interested in Managed Care Pharmacy.”
the College of Pharmacy in support of student pharmacists
interested in pursuing careers in Managed Care Pharmacy. Prior to establishing Cadre Rx, Dr. Valenzuela was a director
Dr. Valenzuela owns a retail pharmacy, and is also acting of pharmacy services for a large at-risk medical group
Director of Pharmacy for a Medicare Advantage Plan at the network and was a hospital pharmacy and retail pharmacy
Inter Valley Health Plan (IVHP) in Pomona, California where director as well. Dr. Valenzuela earned his Doctor of
he has direct oversight responsibility of their internal PBM Pharmacy from the University of Southern California.
operations.
Dr. Valenzuela helped form Cadre Rx in 1998 to address the Above: Bill Burrows, Director of Development, Renee Cook, Manager of Continuing
needs of companies assuming pharmacy risk, such as Education and Events, Fidel Valenzuela, PharmD, Janice Hoffman, PharmD, Associate
delegated physician group networks, health plans, and Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, Sam Shimomura, PharmD,
Associate Dean for College Advancement, Professor of Pharmacy Practice and
employer groups, with the primary goal being to provide Administration, and Susan Tenorio, Vice President Health Plan Operations, IVHP.
clients with the critical information required for them to more
accurately evaluate their PBM contracts and ensure maximum
reduction of costs.
26 WesternU, College of Pharmacy
Supporting Managed Care Pharmacy
Fidel Valenzuela, PharmD, Establishes With over 24 years in pharmacy utilization management, and
more than 12 years of hands-on experience auditing PBMs,
$20,000 Scholarship Endowment for Dr. Valenzuela incorporates his unique perspectives of the
pharmacy benefits industry into his overall client management
Managed Care Pharmacy portfolio, and has been an excellent Preceptor for WesternU
College of Pharmacy student pharmacists since 2011.
By Bill Burrows, Director of Development
“I am excited about the work being done at WesternU’s
This past December, 2014, Dr. Fidel Valenzuela, President and College of Pharmacy,” Valenzuela said, “and through my
CEO of Cadre Rx, a pharmacy management consulting firm, endowment, I want to encourage those students who are
committed to establishing a new scholarship endowment with interested in Managed Care Pharmacy.”
the College of Pharmacy in support of student pharmacists
interested in pursuing careers in Managed Care Pharmacy. Prior to establishing Cadre Rx, Dr. Valenzuela was a director
Dr. Valenzuela owns a retail pharmacy, and is also acting of pharmacy services for a large at-risk medical group
Director of Pharmacy for a Medicare Advantage Plan at the network and was a hospital pharmacy and retail pharmacy
Inter Valley Health Plan (IVHP) in Pomona, California where director as well. Dr. Valenzuela earned his Doctor of
he has direct oversight responsibility of their internal PBM Pharmacy from the University of Southern California.
operations.
Dr. Valenzuela helped form Cadre Rx in 1998 to address the Above: Bill Burrows, Director of Development, Renee Cook, Manager of Continuing
needs of companies assuming pharmacy risk, such as Education and Events, Fidel Valenzuela, PharmD, Janice Hoffman, PharmD, Associate
delegated physician group networks, health plans, and Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, Sam Shimomura, PharmD,
Associate Dean for College Advancement, Professor of Pharmacy Practice and
employer groups, with the primary goal being to provide Administration, and Susan Tenorio, Vice President Health Plan Operations, IVHP.
clients with the critical information required for them to more
accurately evaluate their PBM contracts and ensure maximum
reduction of costs.
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