Mylyfe Was Founded on Two Basic Principles

1. Improve our patients’ quality of life.
2. Give back a larger percentage of our profits than any other specialty pharmacy.

These are the two principles that drove Mark Zatyrka to start Mylyfe.

Mark Zatyrka lives with severe hemophilia. Throughout his life, one thing has been constant, Mark’s endless work to help those living with disabilities and chronic illnesses.

By the age of 11, Mark was traveling the country giving keynote speeches about his life and living with multiple chronic illnesses. He was invited by fortune 500 companies, colleges, high schools, hospitals and youth groups to help educate people about issues he had to face everyday and the lessons he learned about generosity, supporting one another, and importance of making the most out of the lives we have. 

Mark went on to be the first in his family to graduate college and worked for MTV and VH1. Mark left working in video production and film to work at American Homecare Federation (AHF), a specialty pharmacy for people living with bleeding disorders. Mark became an owner of AHF and helped lead the company to receive a 100% customer satisfaction rating year after year.

Mark remains very active in the community.  He served on several boards of directors including Save One Life, The Fund for Genetic Equity, the AIDS Foundation of Western Massachusetts, and the Connecticut Hemophilia Society, which Mark co-founded. He continues to volunteer endless hours organizing and facilitating support groups, chairing large-scale fundraisers, counseling at camps for kids with chronic and terminal illnesses, and presenting at conferences across the country.

Over the past several years, Mark saw trends in many patient communities that frustrated him greatly, such as the vertical consolidation of payors, PBMs, and pharmacies leaving patients with no options and at times, poor service.  He also noticed that corporate support for the community was steadily dwindling as well.  That is when Mark decided to come back and create a new and different specialty pharmacy and make some disruptive change to improve the lives and communities of those who mean so much to him.

That is when Mylyfe was born.