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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. | 