Lisa Pastore is a Program Officer with PCORI (pcori.org). She previously was a COVID-19 Epidemiologist for the Virginia Department of Health, Associate Professor in the Department of Ob/Gyn at Stony Brook University, and Assistant Professor in the OB/GYN Department at the University of Virginia. Her masters/doctoral degrees (Epidemiology) are from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has served as the Principal Investigator of four grants from the National Institutes of Health. Her expertise spans a range of topics including women’s health, pediatrics, genetics, and genetic counseling