Elizabeth Fowler (lawyer)

Fowler was an undergraduate student in health care management at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] She moved to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[3] Her research considered risk adjustment.[4][5] After earning her Ph.D. there, she enrolled at the University of Minnesota Law School. She was admitted to the bar in Maryland.[3]

After earning her Juris Doctor degree, Fowler joined the Park Nicollet Foundation in Minnesota.[3] There, she spent almost five years researching health services. She worked as an attorney at Hogan Lovells, a law firm based in Washington, D.C.[3]

Fowler worked at Vice President for Public Policy at Anthem (then WellPoint). During the health reform debate, Fowler served as Chief Health Counsel to Max Baucus[3] and worked on health reform for the United States Senate.[4]

Fowler was appointed special assistant to President Barack Obama, working on economic policy at the National Economic Council.[3] She was involved with the design and delivery of the Affordable Care Act.[3] After leaving the Obama administration, Fowler joined Johnson & Johnson as vice president for Global Health.[6][7]

In March 2021,[8] Fowler was appointed by Joe Biden to serve as Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the Department of Health and Human Services.[3][9] She is responsible for developing the Medicare payment models. In 2022, she was included by Stat News on its list of leaders in the life sciences.[6]