Lauren Fuller is Director of Legislative Affairs, with the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP), where she is responsible for planning, formulation and strategic implementation of AMCP’s public policy agenda and legislative affairs programs. AMCP is a national professional association of pharmacists and other health care practitioners who serve society by the application of sound medication management principles and strategies to achieve positive patient outcomes. The Academy’s 5,700 members develop and provide a diversified range of clinical, education and business management services and strategies on behalf of the more than 200 million Americans covered by a managed care pharmacy benefit.
She spent 12 years working on Capitol Hill with four Senate and House committees from 1997 through 2008. She served as Chief Investigative Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, and Labor & Pensions from January 2005 through May 2008, where she was responsible for congressional oversight and investigations in each area of the committee’s jurisdiction. From 1997 through 2004, she served as Chief Investigative Counsel with two other Senate committees, the Finance Committee and the Special Committee on Aging, as well as the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Highlights of her years on Capitol Hill include her work on the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, Older American Act Amendments of 2006, Elder Justice Act (included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended), and the investigation of the failed Teamsters election between presidential candidates Jim Hoffa, Jr., and Ron Carey.
Prior to working on Capitol Hill, Lauren practiced law in the private and federal sectors from 1977 through 1997: Acting Chief of Reparations, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Partner, Montgomery and Fuller; Partner, Fuller and Martinez; Administrative Judge, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board; Manager of Monitoring and Evaluations, Legal Services Corporation; and Managing Attorney, Spencer, Frank and Schneider.
She received her BA and JD degrees from the University of Oklahoma and is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Oklahoma, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court and various other courts. She is a Certified Fraud Examiner, licensed by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and a Past President and Board Member of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of CFE. She is a Past President of the D.C. Chapter of the Federal Bar Association (1985), a current member of the Capitol Hill Chapter, and was elected in October, 2010 to a two year term as Vice President for the District of Columbia Circuit with responsibility for the Capitol Hill Chapter, as well as the D.C. and Pentagon Chapters.