Joshua S. Benner PharmD, ScD

Dr. Benner has devoted his fifteen year career to making medications safer, more effective, and more affordable. His award-winning research and numerous publications have shed new light on the under-use, over-use, and mis-use of prescription drugs. As an entrepreneur, he has built innovative and proven solutions for improving the safe and effective use of prescription drugs.

Prior to his role at Millennium Health, Dr. Benner was the President and CEO of RxAnte, a provider of science-based information technology solutions for improving medication use, acquired by Millennium in 2013. Prior to RxAnte, Dr. Benner was Fellow and Managing Director at the Brookings Institution’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, where he focused on medical technology policy. Prior to Brookings, Dr. Benner was principal at ValueMedics Research, an analytic and consulting services firm. Following the successful sale of ValueMedics to IMS Health in 2007, he served as senior principal in health economics and outcomes research and global lead for medication adherence at IMS.

Dr. Benner received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Drake University and his Doctor of Science in health policy and management from the Harvard University School of Public Health. He remains a Visiting Scholar in Economic Studies at Brookings, and is an adjunct scholar in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.