Salard named to Alaska Medicaid Pharmacy board

The Alaska State Department of Social and Health Services has named Alaska Island Community Services physician Greg Salard to the Alaska Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.

He is also a member of the Alaska Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Committee, beginning his three-year term late last year.

Salard, who is currently on vacation in the Lower-48, could not be reached for comment. However, in a 2012 interview, he said he volunteered for the spot on the committees in order to assist his community – and to help move Medicaid policy forward from within a state organization.

“I have alw...