Lisa Palko brings more than 16 years of experience in clinical development, business development, program management, and medical publications to the OPEN MINDS team.

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

Simultaneously, Ms. Palko is also the Executive Director for the Society of Digital Mental Health.

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 the internal field medical team. Ms. Palko served as MLR and PRC Medical Lead and led 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 a digital platform individualized for the company to track/measure KOL interactions, mapping, and insights.

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