Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> January 20, 2003
DAVID L. DALTON is President and Chief Executive Officer of
Univec, Inc., which provides safety syringes and other safe
healthcare products to caregivers and patients. Univec also
provides pharmaceutical samples to physicians for pharmaceutical
companies nationwide. Dr. Dalton has spent his professional
career in the pharmaceutical industry, bringing over 30 years of
experience to his profession. He received a BS in Pharmacy from
West Virginia University in 1971 and was honored as one of the
top 10 graduates over a 100-year span. Dr. Dalton became a Doctor
of Pharmacy in 1974. He served in several capacities with Rite
Aid Corporation from 1971 to 1989, including Corporate Vice
President. He left Rite Aid Corporation to buy Peoples Drug
Stores with an investment group inclusive of Robert Bass of
Texas. Dr. Dalton served as Senior Vice President. Dr. Dalton
then acquired Sherman Management Group and Medical Service
Agency, where he served as Chairman, President, and CEO, which he
merged in November 1994 to MEDNET, a public pharmacy benefit
management company. Dr. Dalton served as Executive Vice President
of MEDNET and President of Medi-Claim (a wholly owned subsidiary
of MEDNET). Dr. Dalton's next venture, Managed Care Rx, a
national specialty care pharmaceutical provider for assisted
living facilities, nursing homes, and prisons, was merged with a
subsidiary of Bergen Brunswick, a drug wholesale company with
sales in excess of $14 billion. His current ventures, Health
Resources, Inc., of which he is Founder, President and CEO is
also a pharmacy benefit management company that has contracted
with over 50,000 retail pharmacies for the fulfillment of
prescription orders and Pharmacy Services, Inc., a national
specialty Care pharmaceutical provider for nursing homes,
assisted living, and correctional facilities. Dr. Dalton has
served as a Board member on such organizations as Blue Shield of
Pennsylvania, United Way, National Health Association, National
Association of Chain Drug Stores, and is one of the original
members and Directors of the National Council of Prescription
Drug Programs which is the organization responsible for every
prescription transaction technology platform in the United
States. Profile
of the company as it is now.
Dr. Dalton: Historically, the company has been one of the
manufacturers for safety syringes
