About Us

A former broadcast journalist who worked at CNN and ABC News, Lisa knows firsthand how to deal with the news media. She also knows public relations as a company insider and spokesperson. Prior to starting The Wolfington Group, LLC in 2004, she was Vice President of Public Affairs for AdvaMed, the Advanced Medical Technology Association, in Washington, DC. AdvaMed represents 1,300 companies and subsidiaries that manufacture medical devices, diagnostic products and health information systems. Lisa directed AdvaMed’s award-winning media campaign to successfully lobby for key medical technology provisions in Medicare reform.

Before AdvaMed, Lisa worked at Inova Health System in Fairfax, VA for five years as Director of Media Relations while also managing Marketing Communications. She received the National Silver Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society of America for Washington’s Health Care Response to 9-11-01 and the anthrax attacks.

Lisa entered the field of public relations and marketing in 1996 as spokesperson for Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. From 1990-96, she was a network broadcast reporter on Capitol Hill and reported for CNN, ABC, Fox and Standard News.

She earned an MBA/MSM in Marketing from the University of Maryland in 2002, and a BA from Glassboro State College, now Rowan University, in 1987.