Lisa Palko brings more than 16 years of experience in clinical development, business development, program management and medical publications to the OPEN MINDS team. She is current serving as the executive director for the Society For Digital Behavioral Health Care.

Ms. Palko previously served as the Medical Advisor/Product Manager for Digital Health Strategy at HealthSystem Innovations. At HealthSystemlnnovations, she was responsible for business development and clinical strategy. She lead medical and clinical pathway development, including stakeholder engagement, to ensure value proposition is being articulated for clients. In this role, she was part of the team creating a population health service module for the DHCS California Medi-Cal program.

Previously, Ms. Palko was the Vice President, of Medical Device, Scientific Medical Affairs and Evidence Generation and the Senior Director, Medical Affairs Consultant at AKILI, Inc . While there, she built out and was accountable for medical affairs organization development including: Evidence generation, patient registry RWE development, and execution of all related deliverables for medical affairs/HEOR. She represented US Medical Affairs with the global functions of Commercial Development, CRD, R&D, Global Clinical Safety & Pharmacovigilance (GCSP) and served on the Safety Management team for key US products. She also oversaw business development and served as executive Subject Matter Expert (SME) for payer organizations, outside partners and global companies seeking partners.

She helped with the formulation and execution of tactical plans and activities including supervision of medical external vendors and internal field medical team. Ms. Palko served as MLR and PRC Medical Lead and lead all scientific and medical communications, including development of materials such as medical education, training, scientific communications platform, lexicon, FAQs in alignment with medical imperatives, as well as medical affairs and strategic planning aligning with brand strategy.

Ms. Palko also previously served as the Senior Medical Director, Medical Affairs & HEOR at TRSI PHARMA. Here, she was an integral member of the FMD Field Medical Leadership Team, responsible for leading cross portfolio regional medical planning strategy and execution of all field medical training programs, and process documentation and improvement. She also created digital platform individualized for company to track/measure KOL interactions, mapping, and insights.

Ms. Palko received her Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She received her Bachelor of Science (BS), from the University of Pittsburgh.