| Annette Hanson, MD/MBA |
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Health Affairs AdvisorDr. Hanson is a nationally recognized clinician, executive and scholar of clinical outcome measures and cost- benefit of new treatments, poly- pharmacy and pharmaceutical benefits. She has published and lectured widely on these topics. Dr. Hanson served until 2003 as Medical Director of MassHealth, the Medicaid agency in Massachusetts serving one million members with a clinical budget over $4 billion. In that role, Dr. Hanson was the Chief Clinical Officer involved in all aspects of the agency's healthcare policy development and implementation, program development, clinical oversight and quality management projects. She was also responsible for the pharmacy program, utilization review, program integrity and the prior authorization programs within the Division.Prior to her appointment at MassHealth, Dr. Hanson held positions in academic and private health care systems as well as serving as Deputy Commissioner of Clinical and Professional Services at the Department of Mental Health in Massachusetts. Dr. Hanson received her undergraduate and medical education in Minnesota, her training in psychiatry at The Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and her MBA in the Executive MBA Program at Northeastern University in Boston. She is Board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology. She is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. |