Freda Lewis-Hall, MD, DFAPA is Pfizer's Chief Patient Officer. In this role she works to extend the reach of Pfizer's patient-facing health information and education and amplify the voice of the patient inside and outside Pfizer. Dr. Lewis-Hall has held positions of leadership at the Howard University Hospital and College of Medicine, Vertex, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Pfizer. Some of her many achievements include founding the Lilly Center for Women's Health in the 1990s; serving on the board of the U.S. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) since its inception in 2010; creating Pfizer's public health information program Get Healthy Stay Healthy in 2012; launching the industry's first public compassionate access request portal, PfizerCARES, in 2015; and spearheading the creation of SpringWorks Therapeutics, a new company working to develop promising new treatments in underserved areas of urgent medical need, in 2017. She earned her undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins and her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine.