Jeanne Lambrew is a United States professor of public affairs and

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. She served in the

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as Deputy Director of the

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. In December 2018, Lambrew was nominated to serve as Commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services by Governor-elect

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Education

Lambrew earned a master's and a Ph.D. in Health Policy at the School of Public Health at the

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. Her bachelor's degree came from

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Career

On May 11, 2009, Jeanne Lambrew was named by newly confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to the position of director at The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Health Reform. Lambrew has been a leading health expert alternately in academic and government. Her research interests include the

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and Medicare. From 1997 to 2001, she helped analyze health issues and develop proposals as a program associate director at the

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and as the senior health analyst at the National Economic Council. Beginning as an assistant professor at

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, Lambrew moved to the

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during the 1993–94 push for health care legislation, then went on to coordinate budget proposal analysis in 1995. She later worked at the George Washington School of Public Health and Health Services as an associate professor. She moved to the Lyndon Johnson School of Public Affairs at the

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, where she was an associate professor of public affairs. She has also served as a senior fellow at

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, and she cowrote a book, ''Critical: What We Can Do About the Healthcare Crisis'', with former

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Tom Daschle. At a December 11, 2008, press conference, President-elect

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announced that Lambrew would serve as deputy director of a newly created White House Office of Health Care Reform under Tom Daschle, who was also designated to serve as

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. Due to Tom Daschle withdrawing from both positions over tax issues,

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was appointed director. Under an executive order on April 11, 2009, Lambrew was subsequently appointed the director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Health Reform, led by

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. The Department's Office of Health Reform will work closely with the White House Office of Health Reform, headed by Nancy-Ann DeParle. Lambrew currently serves as Commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

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