Associate Director, MPH in Health Policy & Management
Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Health Services
UCLA School of Public Health
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
Phone: (310) 206-2602
Fax: (310) 825-3317
E-mail: vriesman@ucla.edu

Leah Vriesman is Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Program in Health Policy and Management in the Department of Health Services. She teaches Healthcare Marketing, Health Systems Organization and Financing, and the 2nd year capstone course, Integrative Field Seminar. Dr. Vriesman is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado–Denver, teaching Pharmaceutical Marketing Management.

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 outcomes research, economic 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 is UCLA’s Co-Principle 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.

Dr. Vriesman received her PhD in Health Services Research from UCLA and her MHA and MBA in Strategy from the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis.