Abel Haile is a Deloitte Advisory Manager with nearly 10 years of health care experience. Abel works in the Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory practice and has experience project managing multi-faceted and cross-disciplinary health care engagements including: (1) analyzing health care data to identify opportunities and compliance concerns; (2) reviewing relevant governance and oversight documentation, including policies and procedures, as well as; (3) assisting with third party audits and performing fraud waste and abuse analysis. Abel has assisted hospital systems with their 340B Drug Pricing Program, and he has worked in tandem with his clients to optimize and increase compliance within their 340B Drug Pricing Program. By leveraging his background in pharmacy and data analytics he has been able identifying system inefficiencies potentially leading to non-compliance. Prior to Deloitte, Abel worked for one of the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chains and led their performance and decision support team. His role(s) included automating business processes, improving system inefficiencies, and performing data analysis on pharmaceutical claims to identify areas of opportunity.

Kenny Yu, PharmD, MBA, is the Senior Director of Pharmacy Services at NYU Langone Hospitals (NYULH) in New York. He provides executive leadership, builds strategy and coordination for all pharmacy services provided within NYULH to promote standardization and alignment of practices across all pharmacy sites. He has helped to coordinate pharmacy initiatives across the enterprise, including working closely with the pharmacy leaders at four hospital locations, investigational pharmacy, hospital-owned retail pharmacy, hospital-owned specialty pharmacy, stand-alone ED pharmacy, and nine infusion center pharmacies. He has been instrumental in facilitating pharmacy’s pivotal role in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout across the NYU Langone Health System.

Kenny served as the inaugural director of 340B pharmacy services, starting in 2016. He managed both compliance and optimization of the 340B program, where he and his team built the program from the ground. His role evolved to include pharmacy business and analytics, in which he supported pharmacy-related contract negotiations, pharmacy projects/initiatives, and pharmacy-driven analyses. Before assuming the director’s role, Kenny served as the assistant director of pharmacy, ambulatory services, where he had a dual role of managing an infusion center pharmacy and handling all medication management for NYULH in the ambulatory care setting to promote safety, quality and standardization. Before he stepped into pharmacy leadership, he was an oncology pharmacist at the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYULH.

Dr. Yu received his PharmD from Rutgers University in New Jersey and his MBA with a concentration in health care from George Washington University in Washington, DC. He became a 340B Apexus Certified Expert (ACE) in 2017.