July 29, 2009 (FinancialWire) — CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) has named Andrew J. Sussman as the president chief operating officer of MinuteClinic, the company’s retail-based health clinic subsidiary, and as senior vice president and associate chief medical officer of CVS Caremark.

Sussman, a physician, was most recently executive vice president and chief operating officer of UMass Memorial Medical Center, a teaching affiliate of UMass Medical School. He also served as an associate professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Before joining UMass Memorial in May 2004, Sussman served as chief medical officer of the Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization.

In his new roles at CVS, Sussman will be responsible for all clinical services and daily operations for MinuteClinic’s 500 locations across 25 states. He will also take charge of the continued development of MinuteClinic in retail health care services.

Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based CVS Caremark operates through more than 6,900 CVS/pharmacy and Longs Drugs stores. It also operates pharmacy benefit management, mail order and specialty pharmacy and online pharmacy units, and a retail-based health clinic subsidiary, MinuteClinic.

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