Mark Pew

Mark Pew, Senior Vice President, Product Development & Marketing for The Preferred Medical and The RxProfessor, is a passionate educator and agitator. He has more than 35 years of experience in the property and casualty, healthcare and technology industries. He created PRIUM’s Medical Intervention Program in 2003, Intervention Triage in 2010, Texas Drug Formulary turnkey solution in 2011, Centers with Standards in 2012, and TaperRx in 2014.

Mark is a popular speaker at workers’ compensation and healthcare conferences around the country as well as individual continuing education venues. From March 2012 thru December 2017, Mark presented educational content 470 times to 36,974 people in 41 states + DC, including 20 national webinars.

He has spoken at many Workers’ Compensation events:

• National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference (2012, 2015, 2016)
• National Alliance of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals (2013, 2015, 2016)
• National Work Comp Defense Network (2014, 2016)
• Work Comp Institute (2015, 2016, 2017)
• ExecuSummit
• American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds (AASCIF)
• Statewide conferences in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia

He has also spoken at other major events:

• National Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit (2014, 2016, 2017)
• Brain Injury Business Practice College
• Abuse Deterrent Formulations Summit
• Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM)
• Mentors for Military
• American Society of Addiction Medicine
• American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
• Case Management Society of America
• National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms
• State Bar of Georgia
• American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine

A frequent media source for stories on pharmacy, marijuana, chronic pain and the BioPsychoSocialSpiritual treatment model in workers’ compensation, Mark is also a regular article contributor to Claim Management Magazine, Workers’ Compensation Magazine, Insurance Thought Leader and PC360. He also publishes thought-provoking original-content on LinkedIn and @RxProfessor.

Mark serves on the Medical Issues Committee of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC), the Workers’ Compensation Committee for the Self-Insurance Institute of America (SIIA), and the Pharmacy Group for CompSense in California (chairman) and New York. In addition, he serves as a technical advisor to multiple jurisdictions (regulators and legislators) on subjects such as drug formularies, treatment guidelines, Opioid Task Force initiatives, encouraging support of non-pharma treatment options and the medicinal use of cannabis.

Mark was named by WorkersCompensation.com as one of the “Best Blogs” of 2016 (ranked #16 overall) and 2017 (ranked #3 overall). He has received two prestigious awards thus far – the 2016 Magna Comp Laude award from WorkCompCentral and the 2017 Samuel Gompers Award from the IAIABC.

To know more about who Mark is and why he does what he does, read “Thursday Thought Leaders” at http://www.legalnetinc.com/2017/02/09/thursday-thought-leader-mark-pew/.