Elisha M. Friesema, MBA, is passionate about addressing the social determinants of health and ensuring patients continually access high quality and affordable care. She spent over a decade in academic medicine, managing public health, health services research, and quality improvement efforts in Chicago. Elisha now focuses on taking scientific learnings and translating them into commercializable solutions that address patient and provider education, population health and access to care and has won several national business competitions for her solutions. Elisha sits on the Medical Industry Leadership Institute (MILI) Affiliate Board, has an MBA focused on healthcare strategy with a MILI Specialization from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, and BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan.