Laura Cranston serves as the Executive Director of PQA, Inc. a pharmacy quality alliance established in 2006 to improve health care quality and patient safety. PQA, as an alliance, works through a collaborative process with a broad range of stakeholders to reach a consensus strategy for measuring performance at the pharmacy and pharmacist-levels; collecting data in the least burdensome way; and reporting meaningful information to consumers, pharmacists, employers, payers, and other healthcare decision-makers to help make informed choices, improve outcomes and stimulate the development of new payment models.
  
For over a decade, Laura served as the Vice President of Pharmacy Affairs for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores where she was responsible for developing policy and positions, in concert with NACDS chain corporations, on issues that included, but were not limited to: third party issues, state board of pharmacy regulations, DUR/counseling, training pharmacy technicians, and legislation to establish a Medicare prescription drug benefit.
 
Laura is a pharmacy graduate of St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions and a former Executive Resident of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists.