Stanley F. Barshay is chairman, Consumer Health Care, for Schering-Plough Corporation.
Barshay joined Schering-Plough in July 2003. He has an extensive background in health care and related consumer products with American Home Products Corporation (now Wyeth). He was promoted in 1987 to senior vice president overseeing that company's consumer businesses and also served on its finance and operations committees. During his career with American Home Products, Barshay also was president of several of the company's subsidiaries, including Boyle-Midway Household Products Corporation and Whitehall Laboratories. Barshay retired from Wyeth in 1997 and has remained active in the health care arena.
Barshay graduated from Long Island University with a B.S. degree in business administration. He also studied at the New York University Graduate School of Business.
Barshay serves on the board of trustees of Long Island University and J.C.C.A. He is also on the Council of Overseers for the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and serves on the board of directors of Bed, Bath & Beyond, Inc.
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. In November 2007, Schering-Plough acquired Organon BioSciences, with its Organon human health and Intervet animal health businesses, marking a pivotal step in the company's ongoing transformation. Schering-Plough's vision is to "Earn Trust, Every Day" with the doctors, patients, customers and other stakeholders served by its approximately 50,000 people around the world. The company is based in Kenilworth, N.J., and its Web site is www.schering-plough.com. |