Leadership

Sandy Leonard

General Manager, Life Sciences

Sandy Leonard is the General Manager of Life Sciences at Arcadia, where she leads the development of new solutions built on high-quality, trusted healthcare data. Her work focuses on translating Arcadia’s deep provider and payer relationships into meaningful research opportunities—connecting life sciences organizations with care delivery settings while bringing actionable insights, clinical trial opportunities, and precision medicine signals back to providers. This approach strengthens the healthcare ecosystem and supports better patient outcomes.

Sandy began her career at the intersection of patient care, public health, and healthcare operations, spending several years within an integrated health system that included both provider and payer functions. Working across member services, appeals, and quality-related initiatives, she developed a patient-centered understanding of how care delivery, reimbursement, and outcomes intersect—experience that continues to shape her approach to evidence and research.

At AstraZeneca, Sandy spent nearly two decades focused on the generation and application of real-world evidence to support innovative treatments and improve patient access to care. She played a central role in building the company’s real-world data and data science capabilities, advancing early health technology assessment, evidence policy, and evidence strategy to support regulatory submissions, health economics, and outcomes research. Through this work, she established and led global teams responsible for real-world evidence, observational and interventional studies, and patient-reported outcomes used to inform regulatory approvals, clinical guidelines, and standards of care across AstraZeneca’s portfolio.

Following AstraZeneca, Sandy held senior leadership roles at HealthVerity and COTA, where she focused on building and scaling real-world data platforms, partnerships, and commercial strategies to help life sciences organizations better use data to support research, decision-making, and patient impact.

Throughout her career, Sandy has focused on advancing patient-centered evidence and building data-driven capabilities that enable collaboration across the healthcare ecosystem and drive meaningful improvements in patient outcomes.

Sandy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Master of Public Health in Healthcare Planning and Administration from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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