Vivo Well being, a pharmacy operated by Northwell Well being, has introduced new management.
The brand new appointments are designed to assist spur the expansion of Vivo Well being and continued enlargement of Northwell’s pharmacy operations.
Dr. Onisis Stefas was named CEO whereas Lisa Mulloy was appointed the well being system’s chief pharmacy officer.
Stefas beforehand served as vice chairman and chief pharmacy officer at Northwell Well being, the place he helped develop the Vivo Well being model from a single hospital-based pharmacy at North Shore College Hospital in Manhasset to a community consisting of retail, mail-order, specialty and scientific pharmacy companies.
Mulloy, in her new position as chief pharmacy officer at Northwell, succeeds Stefas. She beforehand was affiliate vice chairman of pharmacy operations.
“Onisis Stefas has been accountable for strategically rising and increasing Vivo Well being, reworking the corporate from inception as a retail pharmacy to a flexible pharmacy enterprise,” Adam Boll, senior vice chairman of Strategic Enterprise Initiatives at Northwell, mentioned in a press release.
“As a specialty pharmacy, Vivo Well being fills gaps in care and gives a crucial service for the well-being of its sufferers – one thing we wish to commit much more assets to,” Boll added. “I’m assured that Dr. Stefas will proceed to take VivoHealth’s pharmacy companies to new heights.”
Stefas joined Northwell in 2010, the place he led the event of Vivo Well being and augmented the well being system’s pharmacy capabilities. As we speak Vivo Well being administers the pharmacy profit for Northwell’s 80,000 staff members and dependent relations who obtain their medical advantages from the well being system.
Previous to Northwell, he held management roles at CVS Well being Company and Goal Company. Stefas graduated from Albany Faculty of Pharmacy with a Physician of Pharmacy and earned a Grasp of Enterprise Administration diploma from Hofstra College.
Mulloy most just lately led hospital-based pharmacy operations and directed the continued improvement and implementation of built-in pharmacy operations. She earned her bachelor’s diploma in pharmaceutical sciences from St. John’s College and her Grasp of Enterprise Administration diploma in finance from Hofstra College. She is a graduate of Northwell’s Excessive Potential Management Program and is a licensed pharmacist in New York State.
“Lisa Mulloy leads hospital and ambulatory pharmacy operations throughout Northwell Well being,” Donna Drummond, senior vice chairman, chief expense officer and chief sustainability officer at Northwell, mentioned in a press release.
“She most just lately performed a vital position in Northwell’s broad scale COVID-19 vaccination program and now with our Monkeypox vaccination program in partnership with Northwell’s Emergency Operations Middle and Worker Well being Companies,” Drummond added. “She additionally collaborates with scientific management and represents pharmacy on the scientific advisory group, which units system-wide scientific protocols and tips round remedy administration.”
