Integrating Primary and Pharmacy Care: What Works for Patients?

Speakers discussed how to successfully manage and optimize patient medications in the context of primary care. Hear from three different speakers representing a range of perspectives on the topic of pharmacy and primary care including a provider (Maria S. Kobylinski, Geisinger Health), a pharmacy benefit manager (Heather Schultz, IngenioRx) and a policy thought leader (Shannon Brownlee, Lown Institute).
 
Topics covered strategies for successful comprehensive medication management, innovations in pharmacy and primary care integration, and a proposed national action plan for addressing the harms of medication overload.  

Heather Schultz

IngenioRx
Heather is a Director on the Clinical Pharmacy Strategies team at IngenioRx. She oversees the pharmacy provider collaboration team including pharmacy metrics for value based care contracts. Heather has more than 8 years of health plan experience read more

Julie Schilz, BSN, MBA

Senior Director, Commercial Health Innovation, Mathematica
Julie Schilz leads Mathematica's efforts in private sector health offerings and business development. Schilz brings considerable executive experience in the private sector and clinical expertise. In particular, Schilz has a broad knowledge base of care management, quality improvement, value-based reimbursement programs, and medical home initiatives, including those led by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation.   read more

Maria Kobylinski, MD

Geisinger Health
Maria Kobylinski, MD, is chair of Community Medicine for the Geisinger Medicine Institute. After graduating with a BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where she majored in biology, Dr. Kobylinski received her medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. She completed her internal medicine residency at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. She is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a member of the American Association for Physician Leadership. In her current position as chair of Community Medicine, Dr. Kobylinski oversees the operations of Geisinger’s 44 primary care practices. These clinics are actively working, through redesign, to ensure quality care for older, medically complex patients. Dr. read more

Shannon Brownlee, MSc

Lown Institute
Shannon Brownlee, MSc, is senior vice president of the Lown Institute. She and Lown Institute president Dr. Vikas Saini are co-founders of the Right Care Alliance, a network of activist patients, clinicians, and community leaders devoted to organizing a broad-based movement for a radically better health care system. Before joining the Lown Institute, Brownlee served as acting director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation. As a senior fellow at New America, she published the groundbreaking book, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, which was named the best economics book of 2007 by the New York Times. read more
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