Anita Patel
Vice President, Pharmacy Services Development
- Role
- Vice President, Pharmacy Services Development at Walgreens
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Anita Patel
Healthcare and pharmacy executive with 20+ years of experience driving pharmacy transformation, healthcare services commercialization, and enterprise operating models across retail pharmacy, pharma, payors, providers, and government. At Walgreens, I focus on evolving pharmacy from a dispensing channel into a scalable care and access platform—designing services that improve access, adherence, utilization management, and patient engagement while delivering measurable value for patients, payors, and life sciences partners.Previously, I held executive leadership roles at CDC and HHS, including serving as implementation lead for Operation Warp Speed, helping execute the largest vaccination and therapeutics effort in U.S. history (600M+ immunizations). I bring urgency, accountability, and data-driven execution to complex, high-scale environments.My work spans building national pharmacy and provider networks, launching commercially viable patient support and pharmacy services, leading public–private partnerships, and scaling programs managing billions in spend and national-level outcomes. I specialize in pharmacy-led care models, payor-facing value propositions, pharma partnerships and services, and data-enabled operating models that balance speed, quality, margin, and patient experience.I build systems that work—at scale, under pressure, with measurable impact.
Experience
Vice President, Pharmacy Services Development
Jun 2022 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US
Education
Saint Louis University
Master's degree, Biosecurity and Disaster Preparedness
Rutgers University
Post Doctoral Fellowship, Rutgers Institute for Pharmaceutical Industry
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Doctor of Pharmacy - PharmD
Skills
- Supply Chain
- Public Health
- Clinical Development
- Program Evaluation
- Epidemiology
- Medical Education
- Biotechnology
- Data Analysis
- Clinical Study Design
- Pharmacy
- Healthcare
- Health Policy
- Community Health
- Global Health
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Fda
- Environmental Health
- Infectious Diseases
- Strategy
- Clinical Research
- Immunology
- Oncology
- Virology
- Health Education
- Clinical Trials
- Health Economics
- Regulatory Affairs
- Emergency Management
- Pharmacology
- Health Communication
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