Grace Cordovano, PhD, BCPA, is an internationally recognized, board-certified patient advocate and policy leader, and founder of Enlightening Results, with more than 25 years of experience advancing oncology care across clinical, policy, and innovation ecosystems. She brings a rare combination of lived advocacy expertise, rigorous scientific training, and deep fluency in U.S. health policy to modernize how care is accessed, coordinated, and delivered at scale.
Dr. Cordovano is co-founder of Unblock Health, a human-centered access and interoperability platform designed to reduce Patient Administrative Burden (PAB) and operationalize patients’ right of access in alignment with CMS interoperability and data-sharing priorities. Her work focuses on translating federal policy into real-world implementation that measurably improves access, equity, and whole-person outcomes.
She currently serves on the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) Patient Safety in the Era of AI Steering Committee. She is the Patient-in-Residence at the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), helping shape responsible, patient-centered adoption of digital health and artificial intelligence. She is also a steering committee member and co-author of the NAM AI Code of Conduct, and serves as a CancerX Fellow, ensuring the patient and care partner voice informs national efforts to end cancer as we know it.
Dr. Cordovano has contributed to national initiatives including HITAC, the HIMSS Public Policy Committee, and The Sequoia Project, and serves as an advisor to the OpenNotes AI Lab. She holds a Master’s and PhD in Biochemistry from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is a highly sought national speaker, and a multiple-time Patient Advocate of the Year honoree.