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

Contact Information

Phone Numbers

Office: (585) 784-7865

Faculty Appointments

Biography

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 has developed a predictive model of hospital bed utilization for the Finger Lakes Region.

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 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

Credentials

Education

1988
BS | Univ Wisconsin-Madison
Economics

1995
MBA | University of Rochester
Business Or Commerce

1995
MPH | Univ Rochester Sch Med/Dent
Public Health

Awards

2020
Healthcare Hero Award