Lisa Lee Pate was the Valedictorian of Edison’s Class of 1980. She graduated at the top of her class in 1986 from Cal State University, Fullerton with a Bachelor’s degree in political science. Lisa then earned a law degree from UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, where she served as an Executive Editor of the Ecology Law Quarterly and on the board of directors of the Berkeley Law Foundation. Lisa worked as a corporate litigator in the San Francisco Bay Area for 11 years, in the middle of which she decided to follow a childhood dream and become a doctor. She finished the prerequisites for medical school while working full-time as a lawyer. Lisa attended Stanford University Medical School, and, after graduating in 2006, she completed a residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and 2 pathology fellowships at Stanford, as well as a pediatric pathology fellowship at University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital. In 2011, Lisa was recognized as a “local hero” by San Francisco public television station KQED for her work on the Board of Directors for the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara County Valley. Since completing her medical training in 2013, Lisa has worked as the global Director of Clinical Science for Blood Screening at Roche Molecular Diagnostics, where she helped lead Roche’s response to the Zika virus epidemic and supports the development of tests that protect the safety of the blood supply.
