Arnold Gitomer, R.Ph.
Larry Siegel, R.Ph.
Akin Adeyemi, R.Ph.
Willner’s Park
Ave Store
started his own company,
Nutriceutics, distributing professional
nutritional, herbal and homeopathic
products directly to health practition-
ers.
In addition to Phytofacts, Don also
published the Nutriceutics News and
was the contributing editor, nutrition,
for The Chiropractic Journal. His arti-
cles have been published in several
professional journals, and he was the
assistant Sysop on Compuserve’s
Natural Medicine Forum.
In September 1992, Don joined
forces again with Arnie Gitomer,
buying Willner Chemists.
Arnold Gitomer, R.Ph.
Arnie is a graduate of the Brooklyn
College of Pharmacy (1965). After
three years in retail pharmacy, he
moved to industry, accepting the
position of Chief Pharmacist with
West Ward, and later, Columbia
Pharmaceutical Company. Through
his involvement in compounding,
formulating and manufacturing, he
developed an expertise in the techni-
cal aspects of nutritional supplement
products.
He then founded Lewis-Gitomer
Labs, where he began to work close-
ly with alternative health profession-
als. As a distributor of Nutri-Dyn
Products, he became intimately
familiar with the requirements of
holistic practitioners, and the use of
nutritional, glandular and homeo-
pathic products. For two years, he
taught toxicology at the New York
Chiropractic College, and participat-
ed in numerous postgraduate train-
ing programs in applied kinesiology,
nutritional blood chemistry analysis,
and nutritional pharmacology.
In, 1992, of course, he joined Don
as co-owner of Willner Chemists.
Lawrence Siegel, R.Ph.
Larry has the type of background
that fits right in at Willners. In addi-
tion to his pharmacy credentials, he
is also a Chiropractor. He graduated
from the State University of New
York at Buffalo School of Pharmacy
in 1975, and from New York
Chiropractic College in 1984. He
practiced chiropractic for 6 years,
and is certified in Chiropractic Sports
Medicine. But with his strong interest
in nutritional medicine and pharma-
ceutical sciences, it was perhaps
inevitable that he became involved
in nutritionally oriented retail phar-
macy.
Larry is now the Chief Pharmacist
at Willner Chemists, and we are for-
tunate to have him as part of the
Willner team of “nutritional supple-
ment professionals.”
Akin Adeyemi, R.Ph.
Akin is another of our “home-
grown” Pharmacists. Originally from
Nigeria, and a family of diplomats,
Akin speaks several languages fluent-
ly—a valuable skill given the fact that
Willner Chemists attracts so many
foreign visitors and tourists. As a
pharmacy intern, Akin was immedi-
ately attracted to Willners “because
they are so customer oriented.” Its
hard to keep Akin behind the count-
er, and that is how we like it at
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