Sessions
OPENING SESSION: MORE THAN A VISITOR: IN-PERSON CARE PARTNERS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR SAFETY
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Thu
Lisa is a member of the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety COVID-19 Advisory Council. She has been a patient advisor with the Allina Patient and Family Partnership Program for seven years and twelve years as a patient advisor for The Birth Center at United Hospital in St. Paul beginning in 1998. She represented The Birth Center at two national conferences of The Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care and was co-presenter with Allina PFPP staff at the Beryl Institute conference in Dallas in 2016.
Lisa is a Minnesota Master Naturalist focused on birding. She is co-leader for the Minnesota Youth Bird Club. She created birding clubs for Gilda’s Club Twin Cities and Minnesota Independence College and Community (A residential vocational and life skills program for young adults with learning differences and on the autism spectrum.) She is a member of the MN Ornithologists’ Union, Audubon Society, and the American Birding Association. Lisa received the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Minnesota Ornithologist's Union in 2019. Lisa is an active volunteer for Mississippi National River and Recreation Area National Park and has created and led COVID-19 safe outdoor programming for the park.