Board of Health Member --
Anthony M. Maddalena
Date Appointed: September 8, 1987
Term Expires: December 31, 2023
Represents: Yonkers

Anthony M. Maddalena, a licensed pharmacist for the past 40 years, joined the Board of Health in 1987 as a Yonkers representative.

His career has been in both retail and hospital pharmacy.  As a self-employed owner of a retail pharmacy, he dispensed and ordered medications as well as supervised technicians, delivery personnel, and office staff to provide pharmaceutical services to the Yonkers Community.  He has served as a Preceptor for St. John’s University College of Pharmacy, where he trained young pharmacists in the retail setting.

In his capacity as assistant director of Pharmacy at St. Joseph’s Nursing Home in Yonkers, Mr. Maddalena served the hospital, nursing home and outpatient clinics.  He reviewed patient profiles for medication usage and drug interactions and insured compliance with all state and federal regulations. 

In 2004, Mr. Maddalena was appointed as assistant director of Pharmacy for St. Joseph’s Medical Center.  In this supervisory capacity, he instructed, trained and supervised the Medical Center’s staff of pharmacists, technicians and other support staff who procured, manufactured, packaged, labeled and distributed medications for both the hospital and nursing home. Mr. Maddalena now works part-time as a staff pharmacist for PrimeCare Pharmacy Services, a long-term care provider.

In 1993 he received the coveted “BOWL OF HYGEIA” Award for Community Service by the Pharmaceutical Society of the State of New York. He also is a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association, the Westchester/Rockland Society of Pharmacists, and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Mr. Maddalena is a Registered Pharmacist who graduated from Fordham University College of Pharmacy. He has lived in Yonkers for the past 40 years.