Executive Director
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Dr. Melsen Kwong is the Executive Director of Pharmacy Services at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Kwong has over 35 years of financial management experience in pharmacy. Her passion is to achieve cost savings and at the same time increase revenue capture.
She has extensive knowledge in the areas of Supply Chain Management which includes drug procurement from different classes of trade, contracting and product integrity. She also has expertise in revenue cycle, reimbursement and Charge Master maintenance. Since 2005, she was responsible for the management of the 340B Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, resulting in significant cost savings annually in procuring pharmaceuticals for eligible patients in outpatient services, In 2014, Dr. Kwong started the Specialty Pharmacy Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and had grown the profit thousand folds in 10 years.
Dr. Kwong received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of California, San Francisco and completed her first-year pharmacy practice residency at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in West Los Angeles. She completed her second year Management Residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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