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Jess de Jesus, PharmD

President of Beth Israel Lahey Health Pharmacy and Chief Pharmacy Officer

Beth Israel Lahey Health

Cambridge, MA

Dr. de Jesus provides executive leadership for BILH Pharmacy across Beth Israel Lahey Health, one of the largest health systems in Massachusetts with 14 hospitals, including academic medical centers and teaching hospitals affiliated with Harvard and UMass medical schools. He directs the strategic, administrative, financial, operational, clinical and research functions of the pharmacy enterprise across the system. Under his leadership, BILH Pharmacy has seen significant growth and diversified its services, including the addition of a home infusion pharmacy. Dr. de Jesus has been instrumental in building a large central pharmacy distribution center to serve the system’s 14 hospitals, and has led work to integrate and standardize pharmacy operations, ensure regulatory compliance and expand clinical pharmacy services. He has previously served as chief pharmacy officer at UCLA Health in Los Angeles and assistant dean at the UCSF School of Pharmacy, vice president and chief pharmacy officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, assistant vice president and chief pharmacy officer at Phoenix-based HonorHealth, and chief pharmacy officer at the University of Miami. In 2025, the Massachusetts Society of Health-System Pharmacists named BILH Pharmacy as its “Health System of the Year,” in large part due to Dr. de Jesus’ efforts.

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