Leena Patel

Vice President of Development and Business Strategy

As Vice President of Development and Business Strategy, Leena Patel is responsible for developing fundraising strategies and sustaining support to help people access medications and live higher qualities of life. Leena has built her career around healthcare management, with special expertise in access and affordability issues, fundraising, compliance, health policy, and business development.

Prior to joining TAF, Leena was Vice President of Development at the PAN Foundation for nearly nine years. In that role, she helped raise more than $3 billion, enabling hundreds of thousands of people to start and stay on their treatment. Leena previously served as a Health Policy Associate at Applied Policy, where she worked with clients to understand and navigate the complexities of health policy and reimbursement issues, and provided client-specific analyses of healthcare policies, rules, and regulations, with a focus on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Leena has a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from James Madison University and a Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in Health Management and Policy from the University of North Texas Health Science Center.