Monthly Monday Primary Care Talks is dedicated to interviewing guest speakers from across Texas, covering a wide range of primary care topics. Each month, TPCC will bring you informative episodes as your go-to resource on all things primary care in Texas.

Today, you will hear from Keegan Warren and her amazing work to expand medical-legal partnership, which embeds attorneys into the delivery of healthcare to help healthcare teams address the root causes of health disparities.

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Keegan Warren, JD, LLM

Executive Director, Texas A&M University Institute for Healthcare Access

Keegan Warren, JD, LLM, joined the TAMHSC in 2023 as the Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Access. She brings lived experience and a civil justice lens to bear on health and wellness, specializing in non-medical cost drivers and health equity. An attorney and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) director with nearly two decades of senior management experience spanning health and human services, she is a national expert on integrating medical and social services through medical-legal partnership, a care delivery model that leverages legal expertise to advance individual and population health.

Warren’s research and writing apply an epidemiological perspective to legal interventions as a concrete means for addressing social determinants of health and reducing health disparities. She has worked with community health centers and medical clinics to refine their approach to non-medical drivers of health, and to identify institutional policies that may be inadvertently worsening disparities and raising costs. She has experience helping various stakeholders navigate professional values around confidentiality and privacy to facilitate patient-centered data-sharing across sectors. Her expertise includes policy surveillance on targeted access issues, ranging from treating opioid use disorder in carceral settings to securing favorable 340B prescription drug pricing, to improving county-level hospital districting and regional professional competitive dynamics.

Warren is a veteran of the Army National Guard and a member of the Order of St. Joan of Arc, the highest civilian award given by the Army Armor and Cavalry Associations. She served on the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM’s) Committee on Integrating Social Care, recently completed service as an NAM Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar, and currently is currently serving a three-year term on the NAM Board on Health Care Services. She is a former adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and McCombs School of Business, and a lecturer at its School of Design and Creative Technologies.‍

Warren earned her Master of Laws in Health Law and Policy from Southern Illinois University, her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas at Austin, and her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, international relations, and Latin American studies from the University of Arkansas. 

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Questions for Keegan Warren?
Feel free to connect with her at linkedin.com/in/keeganwarren.

‍Questions, comments, or feedback for the TPCC team?
We would love to hear what you thought of today’s episode! If you would like to participate in our Monthly Monday Primary Care Talks as a guest or recommend a guest, please contact Nishi Singhal at nsinghal@texashealthinstitute.org.‍

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