What Happened?
San Diego, CA-based Imprimus Pharmaceuticals has Appointed Joe Bitterman as Senior Director of Operations
About the Company
Imprimis Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to delivering high quality and innovative medicines to physicians and patients at affordable prices. We are pioneering a new commercial pathway in the pharmaceutical industry, using compounding pharmacies for the formulation and distribution of high quality, proprietary formulations that are supported by the clinical experience of physicians and their patients. We are focused on ophthalmology and urology drug therapies; however we also sell other formulations outside of our core ophthalmology and urology therapeutic areas. All of our innovative drug formulations are born from the clinical experience of physician prescribers and pharmacist formulators. We believe our unique business model provides us with the opportunity to address unmet patient needs while delivering safe, near-term and affordable medical solutions to Americans. We have made tremendous progress since the launch of our ophthalmology business and our Go Dropless™ educational campaign in April 2014. Our ophthalmology business is disrupting the billion dollar eye drop market as physicians are adopting Dropless Therapy™ for their patients. We recently announced the availability of our LessDrops™ proprietary topical combination eye drops for post LASIK and other ocular surgeries. During first quarter 2015, we launched our urology business, entering the multi-billion dollar interstitial cystitis (IC) market. In connection with our urology launch, we will commercialize our patented Hep-Lido-A formulation and promote the Defeat IC™ educational campaign focused on medical practitioners and the estimated ten million women and men in the U.S. chronically affected by IC and PBS. We are committed to customer relations, highest quality standards, accessible innovation and solving the unmet needs in the markets we serve. We are delivering on the promise of our unique model and look forward to continuing to serve the needs of our customers with additional novel drug therapies in our product portfolio, and in turn grow our business. Our hope is that through the success of our business we will reduce healthcare costs and provide Americans access to high quality, novel and previously unavailable medicines.
About the Person
\r\n Joe Bitterman is an experienced pharmacy operations leader with a 30-year track record of acquiring, building and maintain high performing pharmacies. Mr. Bitterman joins us most recently from UCSD Health Systems where he was the Pharmacy Manager of Perlman Medical Center. While at UC San Diego Health System, he oversaw the UCSD mail order operations and created the Thornton Discharge Pharmacy and was a volunteer faculty member of USCD Skagg`s School of Pharmacy. He presented lectures to pharmacy school students on such topics as emergency contraception, HIPAA, and “Real World Pharmacy Issues.” Mr. Bitterman has also participated in several California State Board of Pharmacy sponsored programs and Health Fairs. From 1982 to 2009, Mr. Bitterman was a Pharmacy Area Supervisor and Pharmacy District Manager and held various other positions at Long`s Drugs, which was acquired by CVS. He was involved with acquisitions of independent pharmacies, file buys, training and mentoring pharmacy managers and recruiting of pharmacists. Mr. Bitterman is Six Sigma trained and has been a trainer for HIPPA, new pharmacy managers, pharmacy technicians and has supervised up to 38 retail pharmacies. He received a Bachelor`s degree in Pharmacy from the St. John`s University in New York, and is a licensed Pharmacist in New York and California.\r\n
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