Lisa holds a B.A. in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University
and a Masters in Public Health from Boston University School of Medicine. She has a Clinical Teaching appointment at
the Brown University School of Medicine in the Department of Community Health,
and currently co-instructs a course entitled Ethics and Public Health at
the Graduate level, and will teach a new Freshman Seminar this year entitled, “Ethonomics”:
The Uneasy Balance of Money and Morals in the U.S. Healthcare System.
In addition to her role as VP for Alumni Relations for the University, she continues to publish and lecture nationally on issues of distributive justice and organizational ethics in health care systems. She has served for two years as the medical ethicist for the Brown University Institutional Review Board (IRB). She is also Freshman Advisor, and a Thesis Advisor in the Biomedical Ethics concentration.
Lisa joined Brown in January of 2000 as Vice President for Alumni Relations. Prior to Brown, Lisa was with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC) for nearly ten years, a 1.5 million member non-profit HMO, where she established and led the Ethics Program—the first such program of its kind in the country. She also served as the Director of Corporate Training and Human Resource Development responsible for training, recruitment, quality management and organizational development for over 8,000 clinical and professional employees throughout New England. She joined HPHC through the Rhode Island regional affiliate as Director of Planning where she managed marketing, government and public relations, business development, clinical planning, and operations improvement for a 140 physician, multi-specialty group practice.
Before joining HPHC, Lisa spent seven years as a Principal with Human Resources, Inc, a Providence based management consulting firm where she built and managed the health care practice.