was named the 2018 Faculty Member of the Year by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, and was appointed to the peer review committee for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.
| Departments | Type of Faculty |
|---|---|
| Health Policy and Management | Full Time |
Leah Vriesman is Director of Executive Education Programs in Health Policy & Management and is on faculty in UCLA’s School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy & Management. She teaches Strategic Management of Health Service Organizations, International Comparative Health Systems, and is a guest lecturer on Transformational Change in organizations.
Dr. Vriesman has been an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado–Denver, teaching Pharmaceutical Marketing Management, and is an experienced distance learning faculty member for Strategic and Operational Healthcare Excellence and also Healthcare Planning Tools &Techniques for Drexel University in Philadelphia.
As a 2010-2011 U.S. Fulbright grant recipient and German Scholar Exchange award winner, Dr. Vriesman spent a year in Neu Ulm, Bavaria. She was at the University of Applied Sciences teaching International Healthcare Management and Strategic Marketing to German physicians studying for their Healthcare MBA. She's traveled as a lecturer to Mzumbe University in Tanzania twice to bring these same topics to East African physicians studying for their MBA.
While conducting original research in Germany on personal health records, medical travel, and e-Health using internet acceptance and connectivity, she also examined the failed implementation of the German health card (Gesundheitskarte) that would have provided all 87 million citizens with a personal electronic medical record to be presented at time of service delivery at all physician and hospital locations.
Dr. Vriesman is also President and Founder of Excel Research, LLC, a healthcare management and policy consulting firm. Specializing in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, Excel Research primarily conducts executive leadership, strategic analysis, and market trend projections. Prior to founding Excel Research, Dr. Vriesman was Senior Director of North American Business Development within the Medical Technology Practice at The Lewin Group, an international health policy and research corporation, and subsidiary of Quintiles Transnational.
She was UCLA's Co-Principal Investigator on the National Center for Healthcare Leadership's research studying the relationship between graduate health management curriculums with educational outstanding new leaders in the field. Her other particular areas of career interest are comparative merger & acquisition theory between the public and private sectors and pharm-biotech market strategies.
