The Patient's Advocate.
In Every Room That Matters.
The patient's advocate in every room that matters.
Strategy rooted in something most advisors don't have: lived experience
Donna Cryer sits at a rare intersection – patient, attorney, founder, and C-suite strategist. In 1993, she navigated liver failure, an inequitable path to diagnosis, and a transplant that saved her life. She dedicated that second chance to fixing what nearly broke her.
She began at UNOS, the federal organ transplant contractor, learning the system from the inside. She has spent the decades since making it more transparent, more equitable, and more worthy of the patients who depend on it. Whether she’s advising a biopharmaceutical executive, testifying before Congress, or taking the stage at Aspen Ideas, she brings the same thing every time: the clarity that comes from living the issue, not just studying it.
Today, advising Venture Capital, portfolio companies in diagnostics and biopharma to ensure future patient-centered innovation is funded, Donna brings something no credential can manufacture: thirty years of lived experience on both sides of the system.
She showed up as a patient. She never left.
Twenty years.
2x founder. 30 million dollars raised. 42 million in research.One mission: Make sure that patient-centered care isn’t a tagline, it’s a measured outcome.
Donna Cryer, JD is a 2x founder, C-suite advisor, and one of healthcare’s most trusted strategic voices. A Harvard and Georgetown Law graduate with an MIT certification in healthcare AI, she has spent two decades building the infrastructure that puts patients at the center of every consequential decision in health — from clinical trials to drug pricing to digital transformation.
As founder of CryerHealth and the Global Liver Institute, she has raised more than $30 million for the liver health ecosystem, overseen $42 million in patient-centered research grants, and advised the C-suites of Pfizer, Novartis, Genentech, Sanofi, Takeda, and more. She serves as an FDA Patient Representative, a Johns Hopkins Medicine trustee, and a WHO technical expert. She invented the concept of the Chief Patient Officer.
When industry and government need to understand what patients actually need, and what it will take to get there, they call Donna.
both as a patient advocate and policy strategist."
Some speakers inform. Donna moves people to act.
Watch Donna in conversation, clear, direct, and impossible to dismiss. She brings the same depth to a conference stage, a boardroom, or a congressional hearing: the kind of clarity that comes from living the issue, not just studying it.