James P. Mastrian, BSPHR ’65

Jim Mastrian currently serves as Rite Aid Corporation’s special advisor on corporate strategy, where he draws upon four decades of experience in the retail drug industry in shaping Rite Aid’s strategic direction and initiatives. Since stepping down as COO of Rite Aid to assume this role in August 2007, Mastrian has been primarily focused on the task of integrating the Brooks Eckerd drugstore chain, purchased by Rite Aid last June.

Mastrian’s long and distinguished career began after his graduation from the University of Pittsburgh in 1965 when he joined Peoples Drug Stores, Inc., as a pharmacist. Over the next eleven years, he held positions of increasing responsibility including director of prescription drugs, proprietary drugs, cosmetics and toiletries marketing. Through most of the 1980s, Mastrian was president and general manager of Gray Drug Fair Stores, a division of The Sherwin-Williams Company, and senior vice president, merchandising and marketing for The Sherwin-Williams Company, Paint Stores Group.

After a brief period in which he held executive positions at Milo Corp. and SuperX Drug Company of Arizona, Mastrian took a job as vice president and general manager of marketing at CVS Revco D.S. Inc. Within four years, he rose to executive vice president of marketing before leaving CVS Revco in 1997 to become senior executive vice president of merchandising and marketing of OfficeMax Inc.

Mastrian returned to the retail drug industry in July 1998 when he joined Rite Aid Corporation as an executive vice president of category management. Between 1999 and 2005, he held a number of executive positions at Rite Aid including executive vice president of marketing, logistics and pharmacy services. His overwhelming success in this area led Rite Aid to promote Mastrian to chief operating officer of the company in 2005.

He and his wife Nancy reside in Camp Hill, Pa.

Gordon J. Vanscoy, BSPHR ’84, MBA ’91

Gordon Vanscoy possesses over two decades of executive experience in the health care industry, creating and leading successful medical/pharmaceutical service business ventures. He is chairman and CEO of University Pharmacotherapy Associates, LLC (UPA), the nation’s premier independent provider of continuing pharmaceutical education and health plan consulting services. Vanscoy is also associate dean for business innovation and associate professor of pharmacy and therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he recently forged a new dual-degree partnership with the Katz Graduate School of Business.

While Vanscoy was assistant dean for managed care, he rose in the private sector to executive vice president and COO for CVS ProCare, Bergen Brunswig Specialty, and Stadtlander Operating Company. As vice chair of the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, he founded the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Drug Information and Pharmacoepidemiology Center. He was also an active member of the University Biomedical Institutional Review Board, serving as vice chairman for a period of time. Prior to that, as director he developed one of the country’s first Anticoagulation Clinic Services and obtained prescribing privileges at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System.

His primary scholarly interests include economic modeling of high-risk, high-cost disease states related to oncology, cardiology, critical care, and anticoagulation. Vanscoy received his Bachelor of Science in pharmacy and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and his PharmD degree from Duquesne University. He completed an ASHP-accredited clinical residency and a faculty fellowship in advanced geriatrics. Vanscoy is a Certified Anticoagulation Care Provider.

Vanscoy has published a number of textbook chapters, more than two hundred scientific papers and abstracts, received dozens of research and educational awards and grants, provided more than seven hundred invited lectures, and served on many national and international committees. He founded the credentialing entity titled the National Certified Anticoagulation Care Providers, where he remains on the Board of Directors. Although he recently relocated to southwestern Florida where he is pursuing several of new business ventures, Vanscoy serves as vice chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross Westmoreland County Chapter.

He and wife Bethann are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in May of 2008 with children Gordon Jr., an accomplished sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, and Gannon, a junior at The Community School of Naples.