Art Whitney - Board of Director

Member of the Board - Art Whitney

Art Whitney was born and raised in the Sacramento area.  He graduated from the University of the Pacific, School of Pharmacy in 1973.

In 1983, he took a four year sabbatical from the pharmaceutical business.  Art and his family moved aboard their forty-six foot sailboat and spent the next four years cruising over 12,000 miles.  While visiting the island of St. Lucia, Art became involved with Project Hope, an international health educational organization based in Millwood, Virginia.  He spent nine months working for Project Hope on the island of St. Lucia as a pharmacy educator teaching students from seven different countries.

Upon returning from this four year excursion in 1987, Art founded Pacific West Pharmacy, Inc., a closed door pharmacy.   This pharmacy was developed to service the special health care needs of the long term care patients who reside in nursing facilities.  The company has grown from servicing five hundred nursing facility beds to now servicing over four thousand nursing home beds throughout California.  Art participated in evaluating a humanitarian relief program for United States Aid to International Development (USAID) that had been implemented by Project Hope in Russia.  From this evaluation, Art later returned to Russia for Project Hope to consult on future relief programs in the NIS (new independent states of the former USSR), primarily Central Asia.

 Art also served time evaluating war torn hospitals in Croatia for Project Hope.  His mission was to develop a humanitarian relief program to assist in restoring the hospitals medical supply needs.  He then returned to Croatia and Bosnia in 1994 to help implement hospital relief programs and consult with government health officials regarding non-socialistic health care systems.  

In more recent years, Art developed Advantage Pharmaceuticals, a custom compounding center.  This company’s mission is to provide individual patient care and consulting services focusing on BHRT (bio-identical hormone therapy).  Advantage Pharmaceuticals houses a state of the art, Class 1000 compounding lab meeting the recent revised Federal USP 797 sterile compounding guidelines.

            Art currently lives in Grass Valley and Fall River Mills, California with his wife, Caroline Beteta. Together they have four children, Alexandra, Nick, Corey, Troy and six grandchildren.

            Art has served on the MMHD Board of Directors since 2012.