Community Pharmacy as a Neighborhood Healthcare Destination

Bertha Coombs is a reporter for CNBC, covering financial markets, business news stories and health care throughout the business day.Her health care coverage at CNBC has ranged from covering the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the failed launch of the Obamacare health insurance exchanges, to the push by health insurers, hospitals and digital health start-ups to make health care more consumer-centered through telehealth and in-home care programs – and how those new programs were put to the test during the Covid pandemic.Over twenty years at CNBC, Coombs has covered the tech sector from the Nasdaq Marketsite and general market news from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Before joining the network, she reported for the pioneering streaming business network, Yahoo Finance Vision. Prior to that, she served as a reporter for ABC News One and a substitute anchor for “World News Now” and “World News This Morning.”Coombs is a graduate of Yale University. Born in Havana, Cuba, she speaks fluent Spanish.Follow Bertha Coombs on Twitter @BerthaCoombs

Alexander Gourlay is co-chief operating officer for Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. He is responsible for the oversight of business, execution and transformation for the Retail Pharmacy USA division.From February through June 2020, Gourlay was solely focused on his role as co-chief operating officer, responsible for broader global operations, and resumed his position as Walgreens president in June 2020, a role he was first appointed to in December 2014. Prior to this, he served as executive vice president and president of customer experience and daily living for Walgreens. Gourlay resumed his sole role as co-chief operating officer in August 2020.Before joining Walgreens in October 2013, Gourlay was chief executive, health & beauty division, Alliance Boots, a role he undertook in January 2009, when he was also appointed to the board of Alliance Boots.He had previously been managing director of Boots UK and a member of the Alliance Boots Group operating committee following the acquisition of Alliance Boots plc by AB Acquisitions Limited in 2007.Prior to this, he was healthcare director of Boots the Chemists, having held senior management positions in store operations and human resources.He is a board member of the Retail Leaders Industry Association and World Business Chicago and a past chairman of the board of directors of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.