Philip Loftus, PhD
CIO and VP of Information Services
Aurora Health Care

Philip is currently the VP of IS and CIO at Aurora Health Care, where he is responsible for defining and implementing the IT component of Aurora’s strategic goal of providing an integrated approach to health care delivery. Previously, he was SVP and CIO at Caremark where he implemented the move to a paperless mail order pharmacy system based on electronic documentation and workflow, developed one of the major systems supporting the new Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, and launched a high performance eBusiness Internet website with several million active users.

He has 25 years of IT experience in the pharmaceutical industry with GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and what is now AstraZeneca, working extensively in both Europe and the US. His IT responsibilities have spanned R&D, commercial, manufacturing, and finance activities. He has led and delivered major, strategic systems in each of these areas.

Philip obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, where his doctorate dealt with the use of computer systems to model molecular geometry, and he was a Fulbright Hays Fellow at Caltech.