Ann Lefebvre DSW, CPHQ

Ann Lefebvre served as a panelist on Palmetto Perspectives: Who Cares For You?.

Ann Lefebvre is the Executive Director for the South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium (AHEC) statewide system where she represents SC AHEC at the local, state, regional and national levels, serving as an advocate and champion for health professions education, training, recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals for South Carolina. In this role Ann is also the Associate Dean for Community Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. 

She has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry, including more than a decade leading the nation’s largest practice support quality improvement initiative, the implementation of Meaningful Use (electronic health records) in North Carolina, and the direct provision of care as a clinical social worker and speech and language therapist. 

She received her Doctor of Social Work degree from the University of Southern California and her Master of Social Work degree from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. 

She is a certified professional of healthcare quality, a black belt in Lean Six Sigma, and a member of the Graduate Medical Education Transformation (GME/T) legislative committee.