A professor in Temple’s School of Pharmacy, Wertheimer is an internationally recognized expert in pharmaco-economics, with experience in both industry and academia. The author of more than 400 journal articles, 30 book chapters and 29 books, he has been an invited lecturer in 56 countries and consulted on pharmaceutical activities in 31 countries. Wertheimer had served as director of Center for Pharmaceutical Health Services Research in the School of Pharmacy, director of Outcomes Research and Management for Merck & Co., vice president of Pharmacy Managed Care First Health and dean of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.