Joseph Mario Molina (born May 16, 1958) is the former business executive CEO of Molina Healthcare

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Current executive roles

Following the death of his father and founder of the company, C. David Molina, MD in 1996, Molina took on two key executive roles at Molina Healthcare Inc.:

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and president. He is also a director of America's Health Insurance Plans and a member of: the Financial Solvency Standards Board, the

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, California Medical Association and the boards of: the California Association of Health Insurance Plans, Aquarium of the Pacific, and the Homeboy Industries. He is also on the

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at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In 2009 Molina Healthcare took in $3.7 billion, of which $31 million was profit. Molina's personal total compensation for 2014 was: $7,854,147.

Employment history

Prior to his leadership roles at the firm, Molina held a number of other key roles at Molina Healthcare. These included:

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(supervising medical and risk management matters) and vice president (in charge of provider contracting, member services,

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and QA).

Education

Molina's M.D. is from the

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, where he was elected to membership in

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and Sigma Xi. He has an

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from

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. Molina did his medical internship and residency at the

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. After that, he was a fellow for four years at the

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, San Diego, and the San Diego Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in

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and

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. Thereafter he became assistant professor of medicine at USC.

Awards and recognition

Molina received the

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Greater Los Angeles Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2002. In the same year, he was inducted into the Long Beach Community College Hall of Fame. He became an honoree of the Greater Long Beach National Conference for Community and Justice.

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featured him as one of America's most influential

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in 2005.

Molina Healthcare: Origins

The whole family launched the business, with Mario, Joseph, John and three sisters working at the first three clinics. They were expected to help out so they worked the

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, painted buildings, cleaned, washed windows and did anything that needed to be done, other than seeing patients. Mario however did eventually see patients, after qualifying as a doctor.

References

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