Consultant / Senior Director of Pharmacy MassHealth (retired)
Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health / UMass Chan Medical School
Dr. Jeffrey is a freelance pharmacy consultant specializing in Medicaid including managed Medicaid; focusing on value-based contracting; managing novel therapeutics including digital therapeuticsis; and, marketplace trends. He is recently retired as Senior Director of Pharmacy in the Office of Clinical Affairs at the UMass Chan Medical School (UMMS) / Commonwealth Medicine. In that capacity, he was Director of Pharmacy for MassHealth (Massachusetts Medicaid) and was responsible for the state’s pharmacy benefit for approximately 1.2million of MassHealth’s 2million members. He also coordinated clinical and business pharmacy relations with the state’s partner Medicaid managed care plans. Jeffrey was Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMMS, and is invited lecturer at Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard University School of Public Health. He is the current President of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy.
Dr. Jeffrey received his undergraduate pharmacy degree from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Duquesne University. He completed a residency in Clinical/Hospital Pharmacy at Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Jeffrey has 20 years of management experience in pharmacy managed care. Prior to joining UMMS/MassHealth in 2001, he accumulated over 20 years of health system management experience in academic medical centers and has worked as a staff pharmacist in community pharmacy and in hospital pharmacy. He has contributed many presentations and publications to the field of pharmacy practice.
Thursday, March 23, 2023
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM