KAHI - Kaire Holdings Announces That David Kazarian, RPh, FASCD, President of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, and President of Infuserve America, Has Been Named President and Senior Strategist of Vitaplanet Online Drug Store and Pharmacy Unit
LOS ANGELES, Jul 22, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE via COMTEX) -- Kaire Holdings Inc. (KAIRE), an emerging developer and operator of pure play Internet initiatives combining unique technologies with specialized products and services for targeted consumer and business market segments, announced today that David Kazarian, RPh, FASCD, President of the 7,000-member American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, and President of Infuserve America, has joined KAIRE as President and Senior Strategist of Vitaplanet Online Drug Store and Pharmacy Group.
Kazarian brings to Vitaplanet an unparalleled level of professionalism, knowledge and expertise acquired over decades in the pharmacy industry. Kazarian has built successful retail and commercial pharmacy business, and developed innovate techniques that automated many routine pharmacy tasks, and whose record of public service on behalf of health care is unparalleled, extending even to the Kennedy and Clinton health care reform initiatives currently under debate on Capitol Hill.
In 1974, while operating a single pharmacy in Connecticut, Kazarian introduced a comprehensive automated system for records management. Almost immediately his pharmacy's commercial nursing home business took off, forcing him to establish a separate company to focus exclusively on long-term-care patients.
During the next few years, Kazarian expanded from one pharmacy to a chain with locations in every professional building in Hartford. He also founded a consulting business to serve the then-growing base of patients in extended living facilities, hospitals and retirement communities. Kazarian Pharmacy's annual revenues increased 20-fold.
Later, in 1976, Kazarian introduced AutoScript, a commercial-version pharmacy information management system that became an immediate hit, being purchased by hundreds of New England-area pharmacies.
In 1990, he established Infuserve America, one of the first comprehensive infusion service companies on the East Coast. Kazarian grew that new company quickly, generating $4 million in annual sales, landing consulting contracts with several major case management companies in Florida, and developing customized packaging solutions tailored to the needs of home-bound patients at high risk for medication-related problems.
In 1993, the diverse branches of Kazarian's consulting and dispensing activities coalesced into The Kazarian Group, an integrated group of companies with offices in Connecticut, Florida and New Jersey.
In addition to his business experience, Kazarian has devoted himself to improving health care for all Americans. Kazarian has served as Vice President of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) twice, two terms as a member of the ASCP Board of Directors, two years as chairman of the ASCP-PAC Board of Trustees, and two years as chairman of the ASCP Midyear Conference Planning Committee.
Additionally, Kazarian had served on Educational, Organizational, and Professional Affairs councils, as well as the Editorial Review Board of The Consultant Pharmacist magazine. In 1993, Kazarian received the ASCP's Richard S. Berman Service Award. In addition to his activities with ASCP, Kazarian has long been active in the Florida and Connecticut pharmacists associations (CPA), previously chairing CPA's Long-Term Care.
Kazarian's hope for the future is to bring together long-term-care providers and nursing facility operators, pooling their resources in creative ways, and enabling them to compete more effectively in the tough managed care marketplace. In Kazarian's view, full use of technology is absolutely integral to ensure that pharmacies continue to evolve into a clinically oriented, patient-centered, service-based profession, a view shared by KAIRE.
Kazarian began working with KAIRE earlier this year, developing the concepts and services Vitaplanet will offer. The insight provided by Kazarian into the current and future needs of Vitaplanet customers, and his extended relationship with the 7,000-member American Society of Consulting Pharmacists (ASCP), have played an important role in creating the unique products and services Vitaplanet Online Pharmacy will offer.
Products specifically address conditions related to the particular market segments and target both individual customers (business to consumer) and commercial or institutional (business to business) customers.
The Vitaplanet Online Drug Store and Pharmacy, first announced in May 1999, and scheduled to open in September 1999, will be the first Internet community providing dynamic interactive solutions to the complex interrelationships between medications, disease states, nutrition, personal care and other variables related to personal health care.
KAIRE believes strongly in the future of the Internet and is committed to providing the strongest possible content, to build and maintain relationships with business and with consumers, and to establish itself as the leading developer and operator of pure play Internet initiatives combining unique technologies with specialized products and services.
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CONTACT: Kaire Holdings Inc., North Hollywood
Steven Westlund, 818/255-4996; fax: 818/255-4997
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