Top 25 Emerging Leaders - 2019

Lehr has been a key figure locally and nationally in the battle against opioids. He co-chairs the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives’ opioid task force, which aims to spread best practices for using technology to stem the crisis. At Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., Lehr was a key leader in forming an opioid stewardship committee that helped cut opioid prescribing by 68%.