Liz Helms has been a leader within the patient’s rights movement since the mid-1990s. Her vision, breadth of knowledge and unwavering commitment to coalition building, grassroots advocacy, strategic planning, and policy development has earned her immense recognition and respect in California and nationally. In addition to being the President & CEO of the CCCC, Liz co-founded the Chronic Care Policy Alliance (CCPA) which works across state lines to ensure access to affordable, quality health care. CCPA gives states a broader voice.
Liz was instrumental in bringing the clinical pharmacist on the care team to the Right Care Initiative – University of Best Practices which in 2010 won her the Michelotti Public Health Prize from the CA Pharmacy Foundation. In 2019, Liz was honored to receive the Friend of Pharmacy Award from the California Pharmacists Association, WPE.
Liz has been a catalyst within the chronic disease community working with the California administration’s health policy division on health care reform, including implementation of prevention, wellness, and coordination of care. Liz represents the foremost patient voice in the development and implementation of Comprehensive Medication
Management strategies, as a member of the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) CMM Statewide Implementation Workgroup, Executive Member of CDPH Wellness Plan, and serves as an Advisor to California’s Master Plan for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and Treatment, the CA Right Meds Collaborative, CoverMyMeds 2022 Medication Access Report and serves as consumer representative to the Right Care Initiative, Executive Member – Get the Medications Right Institute, and is an active member of the CDC’s National Hypertension Control Roundtable.