Lisa Patel is the Executive Director for the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine. She is a national expert on climate change and children's health with a particular focus on air pollution and wildfires. She is a former Presidential Management Fellow for the Environmental Protection Agency where she coordinated the US Government’s efforts on clean air and safe drinking water projects in South Asia in collaboration with the World Health Organization.

She is a faculty mentor for the Stanford Climate and Health group and mentors projects on climate-resilient schools, environmental justice, sustainable healthcare, and medical education curriculum reform. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change. She received her Master’s in Environmental Sciences from the Yale School of the Environment, her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and completed her training in pediatrics at UCSF.