Premera Blue Cross PGY1 Managed Care Pharmacy Residency

At Premera, we serve more than 2 million people—from individuals and families to members of Fortune 100 employer groups. As the largest health plan in the Pacific Northwest, we provide comprehensive, tailored services to customers in Washington and Alaska that include innovative programs focused on wellness and prevention, disease management, and patient safety. We deliver these programs through health, life, vision, dental, stop-loss, disability, workforce wellness, and other related products and services. We're committed to controlling rising medical costs while ensuring access to quality care for our members. Residency Program Director: John B Watkins, PharmD, MPH, BCPS, is the Pharmacy Manager for Formulary Development at Premera Blue Cross in Mountlake Terrace, WA and is also an Affiliate Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. After graduating from the University of Washington and working as a community pharmacist, he served as a hospital pharmacy director, medical supplies director, and pharmacology instructor in Kathmandu, Nepal. He completed a combined MPH degree in Pharmacy and Health Services at the University of Washington with a res...idency at Group Health Cooperative, where he later worked as a clinical and drug information pharmacist. Before working at Premera, he was an Associate Pharmacy Director at Regence BlueShield. He is a member of the AMCP Format Executive Committee and the ISPOR North American HTA Council. His areas of interest include health policy, health technology assessment and application of evidence-based medicine, personalized medicine, economics and bioethics to formulary and coverage decision making processes.