Dr. Hannah Lee-Brown is a managed care pharmacist currently working on Market Access Channel Strategy at Novo Nordisk, where she supports government payer strategies. Previously, she served as the Director of Pharmacy Benefits at Healthfirst, New York’s largest not-for-profit health insurer, where she was responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing pharmacy benefits across Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial products.  Before her role at Healthfirst, Hannah completed an executive fellowship at the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA), where she contributed to medication use quality optimization through her work in measure development, measure implementation, research, and academic affairs. 

Prior to working in managed care, Hannah completed an executive fellowship at the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) where she supported medication use quality optimization through her work in measure development, measure implementation, research, and academic affairs. Hannah’s national quality landscape environmental scan helped shape the strategic direction of PQA’s 2019 measure development priorities. Her collaborative efforts with the research team, exploring medication access interventions for the Access to Care project, critically added to the growing body of literature on Social Determinants of Health. The Migraine Roundtable she curated and coordinated resulted in identification of key measurement gaps and creation of new measure concept ideas.  Additionally, Hannah facilitated the PQA Academic Affairs Committee and developed curriculum for the PQA Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiential Rotation.

Areas of Expertise

Managed Care, Medicare, Healthcare Quality, Quality Measure Development

Education

Executive Fellow, PQA 2018-2019
PharmD, University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, 2018
Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics, Luther College

Honors and Awards

AMCP Foundation Best Poster Award, Resident/Fellow Category, 2019                                                         
Toastmasters International Humorous Speech Contest, Area 12 First Place Speech, 2018                            

Recent Presentations

• Quality Metrics and Improving Patient Care, Pharmacy Times: Directions in Pharmacy Spring CE Conference, Apr 2019                            
• Interventions Impacting Medication Access: A Scoping Review, Academy of Managed Care Pharmacists Annual Meeting, Mar 2019          
• Why Healthcare Quality Measurement and Who are the Stakeholders? University of Maryland, Healthcare Quality and Performance Measurement, Feb 2019
• Guest Lecturer; Audience: Graduate students in PharmD, PhD, and MPH programs