Rochester Business Journal

Carestream Health Inc. officials announced Wednesday they received accreditation to be a wholesale distributor from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.

The Verified-Accredited Wholesale Distributors program provides assurance that Carestream Health’s distribution facility operates legitimately, is validly licensed and in good standing, and employs security and best practices for distributing prescription drugs and devices to pharmacies, healthcare organizations and other institutions.

The products that Carestream Health distributes that are covered by the VAWD accreditation include dental anesthetics, anesthetics used in mammography and fluorescent imaging agents.

Also this week, the Rochester company announced that Markus Lusser has joined Carestream as senior vice president of global sales and services, and a member of the company’s senior leadership team.

Lusser is responsible for leading the sales, installation and support for Carestream Health’s portfolio of digital medical imaging systems, healthcare IT solutions, medical film systems and printers. The company’s sales, sales operations and services teams will report directly to him.

Lusser joins Carestream Health from Siemens Healthcare where he worked for 20 years in a variety of marketing, product management, sales and service leadership roles.  He was most recently the Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing for Siemens’ Molecular Imaging business.

Lusser earned an electrical engineering degree in telecommunications and electronics from the College of Electrical Engineering in Innsbruck, Austria. He will be based in Rochester.

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