Freda Lewis-Hall

• LP Green, II


• 15 Oct 2012

Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Pfizer Inc.

Ms. Lewis-Hall, M.D., as the senior-most physician at Pfizer, leads the company’s efforts to ensure better health outcomes for patients. Trained as a psychiatrist, she has held leadership roles in academia, medical research, front-line patient care, and global biopharmaceutical companies including Vertex, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Eli Lilly.

In 2010, Dr. Lewis-Hall was appointed by the Obama Administration to the inaugural Board of Governors for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. She also serves on the boards of The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health; The Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows; the Society for Women’s Health Research; The Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation; and the American Heart Association’s “Power to End Stroke” initiative.

Dr. Lewis-Hall is an advocate for empowering patients through health information. She speaks frequently in venues from TEDMED to the Essence Music Festival and appears regularly on the Emmy-winning daytime syndicated show, The Doctors.
Lewis-Hall holds a Bachelor’s Degree from John Hopkins University and a M.D from Howard University.