The Birth of Grapevine Health (PDF)

Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA is a senior health care leader, with over 20 years of health care management, leadership, clinical and research experience with renown organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, including Medicaid and the Milken Institute George Washington University School of Public Health. She is a member of the Aspen Institute Global Leadership Network and an Aspen Institute Health Innovator. Dr. Fitzpatrick has a proven track record in global health leadership, designing and conducting prevention and clinical research and establishing multi-disciplinary coalitions to influence organizational change. She is an influencer among clinicians and public health leaders. Dr. Fitzpatrick has keen insights both personally and professionally into low-income and African American populations and over her career has conducted countless formative interviews, including focus groups, with low-income populations to better understand barriers and challenges to engagement in health care and preventive health behaviors. She founded an outpatient clinical center and a wellness non-profit to help address unmet needs of the low-income population in Washington, DC. She is a skilled negotiator and uses her strategic and analytical decision-making expertise to influence agency policies affecting at-risk minority populations. In 2015 Dr. Fitzpatrick became the Senior Medical Director for the Washington, DC Department of Health Care Finance, a health care agency with a $3.1 billion budget. In this executive role, she develops and influences all clinical policies for the Medicaid program. In this role she fosters cross-sectoral collaboration with the Departments of Health, Human Services, Behavioral Health and Emergency Services.

Prior to her Medicaid role, Dr. Fitzpatrick was a Commander in the US Public Health Service and served at the CDC for 10 years