Aida LeRoy
Executive Vice President, Co-founder, Iatrogen, LLC
Aida LeRoy serves as Executive Vice President of Iatrogen, LLC and is responsible
for the clinical direction of all the clinical products. Dr. LeRoy, an expert
in the field of health care outcomes research and drug-use analysis, designed
the consumer-based drug analysis software—RxWise. She manages the modifications
and updating for all consumer and managed care clinical products.
Previous to co-founding Iatrogen, LLC, she served as Senior Director for Orchid
Biosciences. Dr. LeRoy also was the Co-founder of PharMark and later, after
its acquisition by ProVantage, became an Executive Vice President. She co-designed
RationalMed, EpiMed, and DOCFormulary, three software programs that made pharmaco-epidemiological
research and review accessible to physicians and pharmacists. She was also instrumental
in the management of ValueRx, a leading pharmaceutical benefit company, as Chief
Scientific Officer/Executive Vice President. Dr. LeRoy’s innovative work
developing health information databases and outcomes intervention programs began
in 1976 when she co-founded Health Information Designs, Inc. As Chairperson,
she co-managed and designed systems for monitoring and researching adverse drug
reactions. Her clients have included Fortune 50 companies, major US insurers,
state Medicaid programs, national HMOs, and the FDA.
Throughout the 1980s, Dr. LeRoy also distinguished herself as a senior consultant
for the World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization by authoring
the seminal monograph for the development and implementation of drug formularies
for the WHO Essential Drug Program. Under the auspices of the WHO/PAHO, she
designed, published, and managed the promulgation into law of the National Drug
Formularies for the countries of El Salvador, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala,
Jamaica, Honduras, and Panama. She also authored the US State Department’s
Handbook for Pharmaceutical Logistics for Latin America and the Caribbean, which
has become the logistics framework of US pharmaceutical assistance in Central
America.
Dr. LeRoy was a member of the first USP Drug Utilization Review Advisory Panel
(1990-1995). She chaired the Criteria for Criteria Subcommittee. This subcommittee
sets the standards for the development of drug utilization review criteria.
Dr. LeRoy also served as a pharmacology instructor for social worker graduate
students at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
In 1995, together with M. Lee Morse, she won the Smithsonian Award for Information
Technology in Medicine for the design of automated systems for combining pharmaco-epidemiologic
methodologies with medical and pharmaceutical claims data to reduce the risk
of iatrogenic diseases. She and Lee were subsequently awarded the Smithsonian
Medal and the permanent inclusion of this technology in the Information Technology
section of the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Dr. LeRoy received her
Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of California San Francisco’s School
of Pharmacy.
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