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Lauren Le Roy PhD
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President and CEO
Grantmakers In Health
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Biography
Lauren LeRoy has served as president and CEO of Grantmakers In Health since 1998. Previously, she was executive director of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a nonpartisan congressional advisory body. Prior to MedPAC, she served as executive director of the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC). She came to PPRC from The Commonwealth Fund Commission on Elderly People Living Alone, where she served as associate director. Dr. LeRoy spent over a decade at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, where she was assistant director and directed the Institute's Washington office. She began her career as a health policy analyst in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Dr. LeRoy's work has focused on Medicare reform, the health workforce, health and aging, and health philanthropy. She is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a fellow of AcademyHealth, and a national associate of the National Academies. She recently chaired the Institute of Medicine's Study Panel on Public Financing and Delivery of HIV/AIDS Care. Dr. LeRoy is a fellow of the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research Senior Fellows Program and is a member of the national board of advisors of the Iris Alliance Fund; the Dean's Policy Advisory Council at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health; and the national advisory council of the California Health Benefits Review Program. She received a doctorate in social policy planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
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