DUBLIN, Ohio, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardinal Health today announced that Carrie Cox will serve on the company's board of directors, effective immediately.
Prior to her term at Schering-Plough, Cox served as president of Pharmacia Corp.'s global pharmaceutical business. She had joined Pharmacia's predecessor company, Pharmacia & Upjohn, in 1997 and held a number of positions of increasing responsibility there.
Cox has received numerous industry awards, and FORTUNE magazine named her to its list of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" on six separate occasions, including five consecutive years since 2005. She is a member of the board of directors of Texas Instruments, a member of the Health Policy and Management Executive Council at the Harvard School of Public Health and a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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