Ms. Cannon is responsible for system pharmacy operational, clinical and financial performance at SSM Health, overseeing 1,200 team members, 24 hospitals, 24 community pharmacies, and specialty, long-term care, home infusion, 503B, ambulatory and population health pharmacy operations. Her team also supports the employee health plan serving SSM Health’s 40,000 employees. A healthcare executive with more than 25 years of experience across integrated delivery systems, she led SSM Health’s transformational pharmacy population health work, integrating regional ambulatory, community and pharmacy access teams into a single population health model. Ms. Cannon manages the system’s strategic pharmacy relationships with Navitus, its pharmacy benefit management company, and Civica, the public health utility SSM Health co-founded. She is part of Vizient’s pharmacy executive council and is past chair of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Health System Advisory Board. Earlier at SSM Health, she served as vice president of system pharmacy population health and vice president of pharmacy operations for its Wisconsin Region. She is recognized for fostering a high-performance culture, as well as optimizing complex, matrixed organizations through systems-thinking, cross-functional collaboration and innovation.
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Becker's Recognition
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2026 Winner

