BRENT SAUNDERS
Senior Vice President and President, Consumer Health Care
Schering-Plough Corporation
Kenilworth, New Jersey
Brent Saunders is senior vice president and president, Consumer Health
Care, for Schering-Plough Corporation. The Consumer Health Care segment
develops, manufactures and markets OTC brands such as CLARITIN, AFRIN
and CORICIDIN, and foot care and sun care products that are sold primarily
in North America. He also oversees the new HomeAgain Proactive Pet Recovery
Network.
Saunders joined Schering-Plough as senior vice president, Global Compliance
and Business Practices, in November 2003. He is responsible for leading
the U.S. and Canadian Consumer Health Care division and works collaboratively
with the Global Pharmaceutical Business unit. He also is continuing
in his leadership role for the new HomeAgain business.
Saunders came to Schering-Plough from PricewaterhouseCoopers, where
he led the firm's compliance business advisory services group. Previously,
he served as chief compliance officer for Coventry Health Care, a nationwide
managed care organization, and for Thomas Jefferson University and Health
System, a major academic medical center in Philadelphia.
Saunders also has extensive experience negotiating and implementing
corporate integrity agreements with state and federal agencies. He is
past-president and co-founder of the Health Care Compliance Association,
which named him 1997 Compliance Officer of the Year.
Saunders is a noted speaker on compliance and risk management issues
in the health care industry and also taught health law at Widener School
of Law as an adjunct faculty member.
Saunders earned a J.D. degree from the Temple University School of
Law and an M.B.A. degree from the Temple University School of Business
and Management. He graduated with a B.A. degree in economics from the
University of Pittsburgh.
Schering-Plough is an innovation-driven, science-centered global health care company. Through its own biopharmaceutical research and collaborations with partners, Schering-Plough creates therapies that help save and improve lives around the world. The company applies its research-and-development platform to human prescription and consumer products as well as to animal health products. Schering-Plough's vision is to "Earn Trust, Every Day" with the doctors, patients, customers and other stakeholders served by its colleagues around the world. The company is based in Kenilworth, N.J., and its Web site is www.schering-plough.com.
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