Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 8, 1999
ROBERT L. MYERS is President and Chief Executive Officer of Priority
Healthcare Corporation. Priority Healthcare was created in 1994 to meet
the needs of the alternate site, alternate care markets. Mr. Myers was
formerly Senior Vice President of pharmacy at Eckerd Corporation, one of
the nation's largest drug store chains. He has served on a number of
advisory boards to pharmaceutical manufacturers as well as colleges of
pharmacy. He was appointed a Congressional Commissioner for the Medicare
Catastrophic Healthcare Act and was Chairman of the Pharmacy Affairs
Committee for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. Mr. Myers
served on the Board of Directors for Instacare, a major provider to
nursing home patients. He was also on the editorial board of Drug Topics
for 10 years. Mr. Myers received his B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Butler
University and is a Licensed Pharmacist in Florida and Indiana. He is
married and has two children and resides in Belleair, Florida. Profile
the company just to set the stage for the readers?
Mr. Myers: Priority Healthcare is a cobbling of small acquisitions
