A Prescription for Change in U.S. Health Care
Who: Raymond V. Gilmartin
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
Merck
What: VIP Distinguished Speaker Series
When: April 19, 2005 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Where: UTC 2.112a Directions
Why attend: As more and more
Americans come to rely on
prescription
drugs to meet their health care
needs, the pharmaceutical industry
is
receiving increasing attention by
policy makers at every level. Mr.
Raymond V. Gilmartin, chairman,
president and CEO of Merck & Co.,
Inc. will discuss the ongoing
challenges facing the U.S.
pharmaceutical industry, with
particular focus on the areas of
access, affordability, innovation,
and quality of care.
Bio: Raymond V. Gilmartin is
Chairman, President and Chief
Executive
Officer of Merck & Co., Inc., a
global research-driven
pharmaceutical
company that discovers, develops,
manufactures and markets innovative
vaccines and medicines. Merck
employs nearly 64,000 people
worldwide and is headquartered in
New Jersey.
Ray Gilmartin joined Merck as
President and Chief Executive
Officer
in June 1994. He was named Chairman
of the Board in November 1994. He
joined Merck after serving as
Chairman, President and CEO of
Becton
Dickinson.
Mr. Gilmartin serves on the boards
of General Mills, Inc. and the
Microsoft Corporation. He is
chairman of the Board of Directors
of The
United Negro College Fund and
serves on the Board of Dean's
Advisors for the Harvard Business
School.
An active participant in health
industry affairs worldwide, Mr.
Gilmartin is the immediate past
president of the International
Federation of Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers Association and a
past chair of the
Pharmaceutical Research &
Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
He currently serves on PhRMA's
executive committee and is a
trustee of the Healthcare
Leadership Council.
Mr. Gilmartin also is involved in
global economic and policy issues
that concern the pharmaceutical
industry. In 2003, he was sworn in
as a
member of the President's Export
Council and was asked to chair the
Subcommittee on Stewardship to
emphasize that America's companies
not only bring their capital, but
also their values to world markets.
Mr. Gilmartin also serves on the
Executive Committee of the Council
on Competitiveness, and is a member
of the Transatlantic Business
Dialogue and of the Trade and
Poverty Forum, a project of the
German Marshall Fund of the United
States.
Mr. Gilmartin received a BSc in
electrical engineering from Union
College in 1963 and an MBA from
Harvard Business School in 1968.
Who’s invited: Open to the
public
More info: Contact
MariaLena Rivera.
For information on speaking events at McCombs, contact Public Affairs Representative Gayle Hight, 512-475-6423, gayle.hight@mccombs.utexas.edu.
