WesternU Executive Appointed to Advisory Committee of California Workforce Initiative
The California Workforce Initiative (CWI), a new program working to
improve the quality of California’s health care workforce, has asked Carl
E. Trinca, an executive at Western University of Health Sciences
(WesternU), to serve on the CWI’s Advisory Committee.
Funded by the California HealthCare Foundation and The California
Endowment, the CWI links research, education, policy reform and community
needs as it targets supply and distribution, diversity, skill base and
regulation of the state’s health care professionals. The CWI is based at
the University of California at San Francisco’s Center for the Health
Professions.
“”Serving as a member of the CWI’s Advisory Committee to the is indeed an
honor,”” Dr. Trinca said. “”I hope to bring the perspective of both
osteopathic medicine and pharmacy to the Committee.””
The CWI intends to address the supply and distribution of health care
professionals, ethnic diversity in the health care industry, the need for
re-training and government regulation of health care workers. The CWI also
hopes to educate the state’s citizens about health care workforce issues,
an effort that should help people make better-informed health care
decisions.
Dr. Trinca received his bachelor and master degrees in pharmacy and a
doctor of philosophy in higher education/academic administration from the
University of Arizona.
He came to WesternU in 1995 after a 12-year career as executive vice
president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Prior to
his tenure at AACP, he held various administrative positions at the
College of Pharmacy at the University of Arizona, including head of the
department of pharmacy practice and assistant dean/associate professor of
pharmacy practice.
He was a director of professional relations and head of marketing for
health maintenance organizations for Pharmaceutical Card System, Inc., of
Phoenix, Arizona.
Dr. Trinca also is chairman of one of the boards of the Federation
Internationale Pharmaceutique (FIP), a world-wide pharmacy group which
works with the World Health Organization to raise the quality of pharmacy
practice, science and education throughout the world.