Michele Lawrence, M.B.A., M.P.H.

About Me

Professional Background

Michele is a thought leader with over 25 years of experience advising executive leadership on healthcare strategy, clinical transformation, innovation and rural health. She is also adept at using data to drive strategic and operational insights. Michele is a member of the COVID modeling team that ha...

Michele is a thought leader with over 25 years of experience advising executive leadership on healthcare strategy, clinical transformation, innovation and rural health. She is also adept at using data to drive strategic and operational insights. Michele is a member of the COVID modeling team that has developed a predictive model of hospital bed utilization for the Finger Lakes Region.

Faculty Appointments

Assistant Professor - Department of Psychiatry (SMD) - Joint

Assistant Professor - Department of Public Health Sciences (SMD) - Joint

Credentials

Education

MBA | University of Rochester. Business Or Commerce. 1995

MPH | Univ Rochester Sch Med/Dent. Public Health. 1995

BS | Univ Wisconsin-Madison. Economics. 1988

Awards

Healthcare Hero Award. 2020

Research

Michele is the Co-Principal Investigator of the UR Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence. This is a federally funded program of the US Dept of Health & Human Services, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Community Opioid Response Program (RCORP), that has been awarded $12.3M to ...

Michele is the Co-Principal Investigator of the UR Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence. This is a federally funded program of the US Dept of Health & Human Services, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Community Opioid Response Program (RCORP), that has been awarded $12.3M to disseminate evidence-based research that supports rural communities in reducing morbidity & mortality from substance use disorder, particularly synthetic opioid use.

Michele has led the development of the Ecosystem of Recovery, a community-wide change management approach to reducing morbidity & mortality from SUD by bringing about multi-faceted system-level change. The work of the center can be found at https://recoverycenterofexcellence.org