 2006 Conference
Health Care
 programs at Wharton
2004 Conference
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Panelists: Finance Panel
L. John Wilkerson
Co-founder
Galen Partners
Dr. Wilkerson, co-founder of Galen, is former Chairman of the Wilkerson Group. Dr. Wilkerson launched his career as a Group Product Director for Ortho Diagnostics Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company.
He then joined White Weld & Co. as a healthcare security analyst, and after Merrill Lynch acquired White Weld, he joined Smith Barney as a Vice President specializing in medical analysis and research. Dr. Wilkerson joined Channing, Weinberg & Co., Inc. as a senior officer in 1980 and later purchased control of the firmīs healthcare consulting division to form the Wilkerson Group, one of the industryīs leading healthcare consultancies.
Dr. Wilkerson holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, where he specialized in managerial economics and marketing research, and an undergraduate degree in biological sciences from Utah State University.
Dr. Wilkerson is a founder of the E.L. Rose Conservancy in Pennsylvania, a Director of Atlantic Health Systems (a five-hospital consortium in New Jersey), and the Harding Land Trust, President of the Museum of American Folk Art, and a member of both the Corning University Council and Cornell Plantations. He currently serves on the boards of Stericycle, Inc. and several of Galenīs privately held companies.
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