Lisa Morrise

Lisa Morrise serves as Executive Director of Consumers Advancing Patient Safety or CAPS. CAPS promotes collaboration between clinicians and patients and their caregivers.

Lisa has three grown children who had special needs, including her youngest, Skyler, now 28, who was born unable to breathe or swallow and required a tracheotomy for a number of years. Skyler has had 46 surgeries for numerous more procedures.

Lisa has lobbied for pediatric palliative care, served on the Governing Board of Salt Lake’s early intervention program (DDI Vantage), was a member of the State of Utah Early Intervention Board, and served on the Primary Children’s Hospital Family Advisory Council, which she co-chaired and facilitated.

Lisa was the Patient Co-Lead on the Patient and Family Engagement Affinity Group for the CMS National Partnership for Patients. She has been a Patient Lead for the CMS CMMI Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative and Medication Management & Safety Affinity Group. She is a content expert in Patient and Family Engagement implementation and in Person- and Family-Centered Care and has presented extensively on these and related topics. Lisa’s article Training Patient and Family Storytellers and Patient and Family Faculty was published in the Summer 2013 Permanente Journal.

Lisa helped produce the 2015 CAPS Signature Series and the 2019 Perspectives trainings available from Consumers Advancing Patient Safety. Lisa serves on the PFCC Measures Committee for the National Quality Forum and is a member of the NCQA Clinical Practices Committee. She is currently leading the education effort, “Restarting and Energizing PFACs,” a multi-meeting series that seeks to support how an organization may implement effective Patient and Family Advisory Councils.

Lisa Morrise graduated from the University of Kansas with B.S., Journalism, and M.A., Broadcast Management, degrees. She was named the Outstanding Broadcasting Student of the year by the National Association of Broadcasters. Lisa worked at radio stations and as a broadcast management consultant. She has worked as an Adjunct Professor and taught Media Management for Brigham Young University and Communications for other local Universities. Lisa has been a candidate for State Representative. She has been active in Community Service and has been named Big Sister of the Year, an Outstanding Young Woman of America and a runner-up for the JC Penney Golden Rule Award. Lisa volunteers with the local chapter and alumna association of the Alpha Phi Sorority. She owns a rescue dog that has a floppy trachea (like her child) and is a highlight of her life.