Lisa Belisle is a physician executive with a doctorate in leadership studies. She has directed primary care service lines, served as medical director of a virtual-first primary and urgent care company, sat on the board of an accountable care organization and led virtual care transformation as an Associate Chief Medical Officer. She now coaches physicians moving from clinician to leader, and advises the health systems, teams and boards they lead.
She focused her doctoral work at the University of Central Arkansas on leading through change, and she coaches from that framework. For more than a decade she taught in residency and graduate medical education. She holds an MD, an MPH and an MBA alongside the PhD, and she keeps medical licenses in Maine, Ohio and South Carolina. She builds AI tools herself, so her advice on clinical AI adoption comes from hands-on work.
Her practice integrates Western medicine with acupuncture, Five Phase theory from Chinese medicine, mindfulness-based stress reduction, qigong and herbalism. She is board certified in family medicine and in preventive medicine. Across more than three decades of practice, she has understood health as something that unfolds within relationships, rhythms and time.
Lisa hosts Radio Maine, a video podcast of conversations with Maine’s artists, healers and community leaders. She co-hosts A Healthy Conversation with Dr. Jeff Barkin on Newsradio WGAN. She publishes The Bountiful Path, a Substack newsletter at the intersection of medicine, art and seasonal wisdom. Earlier she worked as a wellness editor and editor in chief for a regional publication. She has recorded and published more than a thousand long-form conversations on the air and in print.
Lisa collaborates with The Portland Art Gallery in Portland, Maine, where the Radio Maine Live panel series and the Artful Escapes conversation series take place. Her speaking work includes featured talks, fireside conversations, workshops, retreats and panel moderation.
She is writing a memoir centered on her relationship with her late father, Charles Belisle, MD, a family physician who practiced for nearly fifty years at Maine Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency Program. She and her husband have six children between them. They live on Littlejohn Island, off the coast of Maine.
