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Video Forum: George Rafferty & Claire Biermaas, AmerisourceBergen

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This week’s Video Forum offers a look at the leadership transition now under way at AmerisourceBergen’s Corporate Partnerships Group. In the first of two installments, George Rafferty, who has headed the program since its inception five years ago, and Claire Biermaas, who is succeeding him as president of corporate partnerships, share their perspectives on the changing of the guard and meeting the needs of the pharmaceutical distributor’s biggest customers.

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