Dr. Byre leads pharmacy and laboratory strategies and services across the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area, where Allina Health’s pharmacy services have transformed into a fully integrated enterprise. Under her leadership, pharmacy’s role has grown to include a direct reporting relationship to Allina’s COO and oversight of the system’s laboratory services. Dr. Byre helped establish a profitable retail pharmacy division and an internal, dually accredited specialty pharmacy in 2017 that has achieved a 6,000% increase in monthly specialty revenues. She led the design of a nationally recognized drug diversion prevention program and implemented a biosimilar conversion program that saved $3 million in drug costs and $3 million in total cost of care. When she joined Allina as director of its retail pharmacies in 2009, the business was struggling financially, and her leadership is credited with keeping the system in retail pharmacy and turning it into a success. Dr. Byre is a past president of the Minnesota Pharmacists Association and a member of Vizient’s pharmacy executive council, and she was named a 2025 “Notable Woman in STEM” by Twin Cities Business.
