Lucille Accetta is VP, Global Operations, Patient Solutions at Teva Pharmaceutical. She is responsible for leading and driving the execution and operational oversight of all global patient support programs in Europe and Growth Markets. She provides strategic leadership, operations, quality and compliance management to assure comprehensive patient support programs globally

Prior to Teva, Lucille worked for Express Scripts, formally Medco Health Solutions. During her 12 years at Medco, she served in management and leadership roles in the specialty divisions, clinical, operations, and product organizations. She managed patient safety and adherence programs integrating medical, pharmacy and lab claims data to identify gaps in pharmacy and medical care, later transferring this knowledge to the newly formed international division of Medco.

She earned her bachelor degree in pharmacy from St. John’s University College of Pharmacy in New York, an MBA from Fordham University and a MPH from New York Medical College. She currently serves as a board member for Student Advocacy, an organization serving the educational needs of children with disabilities in New York.

Rob joined Express Scripts in 2005 and is currently the V.P., Business Development Pharma and Biotech. Rob has extensive knowledge of the PBM, Specialty Pharmacy, Specialty Distribution, and Patient Access Services (REMS, PAP, Reimbursement, Nursing Services). He is a subject matter expert in the development and enhancement of the Specialty Pharmacy and Specialty Distribution channels for new and existing specialty products. Rob has responsibility for business development for pharmaceutical and biotech client’s strategies in order to successfully contract and maximize distribution channel strategies. This involves providing a single source solution for all patient access, specialty pharmacy, and specialty distribution channel needs.

Rob holds an M.B.A. from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College and a B.A. in Biology from Indiana University.

Dr. Perkins provides clinical leadership for all Commercial and Medicare Services, Medical Management, and Provider Network Development activities for the Health Plan. In addition, he oversees UPMC Health Plan Community Health Initiatives. Dr. Perkins provides clinical leadership for Commercial Products and WorkPartners suite of productivity products. Current areas of focus for the Health Plan include payment reform, development of alternative value based payment models, management of total cost of care and initiatives with UPMC as an integrated finance and delivery system.

Dr. Perkins served as Vice President of Medical Affairs and Senior Medical Director for the Health Plan. In these previous positions he provided strategic clinical leadership for all the Health Plan's line of business products and served as Senior Medical Director for UPMC WorkPartners’ suite of workers' compensation, employee assistance, health promotion, and health management products.

Before joining the Health Plan in 2010, Dr. Perkins served for 12 years as Corporate Medical Director for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, the largest Vermont-based health coverage carrier. His 30 years in the health care field also include 14 years as a family physician in South Charleston, W.Va.

Education/training:

• Bachelor’s degree in biology from West Virginia University
• Medical degree from the West Virginia University School of Medicine
• Completed his residency in family medicine at Kanawha Valley Family Practice Center in South Charleston, W.Va.
• Completed Fellowship in Family Medicine
• Board certified and recertified in Family Medicine

Dr. Robert Popovian is Sr. Director, US Government Relations at Pfizer Inc. For the past 2 decades, Dr. Popovian has published and presented extensively on the impact of biopharmaceuticals and health policies on health care costs and clinical outcomes, including authorship in clinical and healthcare delivery journals and published expert source in Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Pink Sheet and Bloomberg News amongst many others. He also writes a monthly column published in Morning Consult regarding health policy and economic issues relevant to the biopharmaceutical industry. He currently serves as a board member for the Global Healthy Living Foundation.

Dr. Popovian is one of the few researchers who has studied and published both clinical and policy related economic analysis as well as one of a handful who have studied and published empirical data regarding emerging payment mechanisms in the US healthcare system. He was also one of the first to secure inclusion of health outcomes data regarding labeled indication of a biopharmaceutical.

Dr. Popovian completed his Doctorate in Pharmacy and Masters of Science in Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy degrees at the University of Southern California with honors. He has also completed a residency in Pharmacy Practice/Adult Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Los Angeles County – University of Southern California Hospital.

Joel Wright was named President and Chief Executive Officer of a combined specialty and mail services company with AllianceRx Walgreens Prime that launched on April of 2017. This combined company is a subsidiary of Walgreens, the Retail Pharmacy USA Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance, and will be headquartered in Chicago, Ill.

Mr. Wright previously was Divisional Vice President of Walgreens Specialty Solutions Group, a division dedicated to providing patients with complete specialized pharmaceutical care to treat chronic, rare or complex conditions. During his tenure from 2013 - 2016, Mr. Wright developed and executed a successful go-to-market strategy for five central specialty and 250 local specialty pharmacies throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Under his leadership, the Specialty Solutions Group nearly doubled its sales and amassed more than $8 million in annual revenue.

Before leading the specialty division, Mr. Wright held a variety of leadership roles of increasing responsibility at Walgreens. He began his Walgreens career 22 years ago as a Pharmacy Manager and Supervisor and has since served as Vice President of Home Care, Executive Director of Pharmacy and Senior Director of Healthy System Operations.

Mr. Wright holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the Ferris State University in Grand Rapids, MI. He also completed the Executive Management Program for Pharmacy Leaders at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.