Alan Lyles is a pharmacist with a doctoral degree in operations research/health policy and management; he has extensive experience with health services delivery and applied research. He has published and lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad. In 2005, Lyles became the Yale Gordon College Distinguished Chair in Research and Scholarship. At the state level, he has given testimony to the Maryland House Economic Matters and Environmental Matters Committees and the Senate Finance Committee on pharmaceutical cost and access issues.

Lyles is the Henry A. Rosenberg Professor of Public, Private and Nonprofit Partnerships in the UB School of Public Affairs’ Health Systems Management faculty. He is also senior fellow at both the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics at UB and the Center on Drugs and Public Policy at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Formerly, he was on the Department of Health Policy and Management’s faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he now holds an adjunct faculty appointment.