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State Senator, Florida
Senator Gayle Harrell has served 24 years in the Florida Legislature. She has served in the Florida Senate since 2018, after serving eight terms in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000-2008 and 2010-2018. Gayle has over 30 years of experience in health care. She is President and CEO of Health IT Strategies, a company dedicated to assisting physicians, hospitals, and labs develop strategies to expand the use of health information technology and electronic health records. She worked as a health care administrator, managing the OB-GYN practice of Dr. James E. Harrell and was the founder of the Breast Imaging Center, a mammography center.
She has focused her interest and passion in the legislature on health and human services issues serving on and chairing many health and human services policy and appropriations committees. She passed many major pieces of health care legislation, including 2004 legislation permitting the use of e-prescribing, as well as bills to advance cancer research and telehealth, and establish a Health Innovation Council.
