Lisa Kennedy

About Lisa Kennedy

Dr. Lisa Kennedy specializes in health care policy, corporate strategy, outcomes research, real-world evidence, AI, machine learning and market access. She was head of Lewin Group UK and Europe, then as head of the eHealth company, Planet Medica UK, made the Financial Times Top-10 Digital Management Teams. In 2005, Dr. Kennedy joined GE Healthcare as Chief Economist and then was Global Head of Marketing Operations and Chief Marketing Officer, healthymagination where she received the President\'s Award and GE Vice Chairman’s Award. She was a curator for TEDMED’s Start-Up HIVE, a mentor for Rock Health, Adjunct Faculty for Singularity University, a Biocluster Expert for the Skolkova Foundation, and board member of Neurologics. She is an expert on ICER assessments, having worked on these since 2015. Dr. Kennedy has several peer-reviewed articles, including for the JCO and an editorial for the British Journal of Cardiology. She has spoken over 100 times internationally on healthcare open innovation, crowdsourcing, disruptive growth, affordability, eHealth, RWE, health policy, ambient intelligence and quantified self, including for NASA, the NHS, the EU, SXSW, FutureMed, IMPLAN and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and has keynoted for Pfizer’s innovation conference, HIMSS 2014, Europe, HIMSS 2015 MEA and HIMSS 2015 ASEAN. The WSJ and NPR have quoted Dr. Kennedy on future healthcare trends in consumer health. Dr. Kennedy and her teams have received awards from the UN, the White House, IDEA, the Triple Negative Foundation and the National Association of Female Executives. She has been recognized by NASA for outstanding contribution to the Space Life Science Innovation Lecture Series. She has a B.A. from U.C. Davis and a M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Health Economics from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. At 25, she received the 1994 Russel Trust Award and the Gray Prize for research supported by Sir John Crofton changing WHO TB practice in Ethiopia.

Experience

1. Chief Economist & Managing Principal

   Innopiphany

   Jan 2013 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

Education

• University of St Andrews

  M.Phil., Management, Economics, Policy (health)

  1991 — 1992

• University of California, Davis

  Bachelor's degree, Economics

  1986 — 1990

• University of St Andrews

  Ph.D., Health Economics

  1992 — 1995