Lisa Meyer 
Lisa Meyer joined Cornerstone Government Affairs in 2004 after a distinguished seven-year career as a professional staff member in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
As part of the Cornerstone team, Lisa’s practice focuses on health policy issues, including public health, emergency medical services (EMS), biodefense, hospitals, and health systems. Lisa played a key role in
working with Congress to create a $30 million grant program benefiting rural fire and EMS providers in the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008. Lisa has also organized federal health care policy forums, created Congressional EMS Caucus in the House of Representatives, and devised a strategy to block the elimination of a $100 million public health grant program. In addition, Lisa has developed a reputation in the Washington, D.C. area as a notable public speaker on the issue of health care
Lisa’s Capitol Hill experience included three years as a legislative assistant for a Midwestern Senator focusing on health care issues and serving as the Senator’s liaison to the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. The HELP Committee has jurisdiction over a broad range of issues such as public health, the Food and Drug Administration, health insurance, biomedical research and development and aging. The Senator also played a key role in the Senate Rural Health Caucus where she helped formulate Medicare policy and other policy issues dealing with rural health care.
Prior to her time in the Senate, Lisa spent several years as an aide to a senior Congressman from the Midwest. Before moving to Washington, Lisa began her career as a constituent services representative in a Congressional district office in Topeka, Kansas.
Lisa received a Bachelor of Public Administration from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and is completing her Masters in Government at Johns Hopkins University.