Long before she was a student at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law, Annie Lee was receiving a grade-A education from the American health-care system.
An adolescent whose parents had medical problems, Lee (JD ’07) studied their experiences in doctor’s offices. She noted how they were passed off from one person to the next to the next. She listened in on countless questions from doctors, nurses, medical assistants and unknown personnel. And she observed how difficult it was to understand and translate the complexity of the health care system, especially from her vantage point of a first-generation Korean American.
“Unfortunately, I think that some of that very confusing, overwhelming culture of health care is still very present today, and people are experiencing it,” Lee says. “That’s really what got me interested in doing something in the health-care system, to have it work a little better than it did for my family.”
In February, Lee ascended to the role of CEO at Colorado Access, a locally based nonprofit health-care company and the state’s largest public sector health plan. She’s the first woman and person of color to serve in such a capacity, and she brings years of experience, after stints at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Kaiser Permanente and the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.
“I’m so fortunate and privileged to now be able to be in this role where I get to really serve some of the most vulnerable underserved and...
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