The NeedyMeds Board of Directors
Gary Marlow-President
Gary has thirty-five years of experience in hospital finance, with twenty-three years spent as a hospital CFO. Currently he is the AVP of Finance/Planning at Northeast Hospital Corp. Prior to that he was the SVP/Treasurer at the New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, NH. He is has been married for 36 years to Mary, a NeedyMeds volunteer, and has two children.
Donald Maier, M.D.-Vice President
Don is the former Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He graduated from Haverford College and Hahnemann Medical College, and subsequently trained in obstetrics and gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Duke University Medical Center. He was at the University of Connecticut from 1984 to 2008 and is now an emeritus professor. He moved to Rockport, MA in 2008 and has been a volunteer at NeedyMeds since 2009.
Michael Holmes-Secretary
Michael currently serves as president of Rx Outreach, non-profit organization that makes medicine affordable to people in need throughout America. Prior to this he was an executive vice president at Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy benefit management companies in North America. Prior to Express Scripts, Michael was a principal and the chief human resources officer for Edward Jones in St. Louis, and served as a member of the firm's management and executive committees.
Michael is a member of the Board of Directors of Missouri Baptist Hospital, St. Louis College of Pharmacy and the United Way of Greater St. Louis. He graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree from Washington University in 1979 with a triple major, and earned a master's degree in business from Webster University in 1993.
Frederick Cowan-Treasurer
Frederick has a long history of service in board management, grass roots organizations and local government. On his lengthy list of organizations that he has helped guide are his current commitments to the Gloucester, MA Board of Health and the Boston AIDS Action Committee. He has been a strong advocate and supporter of many activist and volunteer groups. He is a Gloucester resident.
Maureen is the supervising attorney at the Medicare Part D Appeals Unit of Legal Services (LSE) for the Elderly of Maine. She has held this position since 2006, when Medicare Part D began and the State of Maine asked LSE to set up a Unit to help low-income Mainers who had trouble getting their medications through Medicare Part D. The Unit, comprised of four Appeals Specialists as well as Maureen, provides statewide help to people on limited incomes who cannot afford or obtain their prescription drugs through Medicare.
Maureen graduated from the University of Maine Law School in 1986. She subsequently represented injured employees in their workers compensation cases and became a partner at the McTeague Higbee law firm in Topsham, Maine. Prior to law school, she was a reporter for the Associated Press, based in Augusta
Left to right: Fred Cowan, Maureen Dea, Michael Holmes, Gary Marlow and Donald Maier, M.D.