Dr. Marissa Fontanez is a healthcare leader who has spent over a decade at the intersection of direct clinical practice, educational strategy, and operations. She began her career in psychology and transitioned into nursing, earning her doctorate in nursing and completing a fellowship in integrative medicine through the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine. Across clinical, educational, and operational leadership roles, she has built and led cross-functional teams, scaled education programs, driven strategy, and designed CME and CE-accredited curricula across therapeutic areas.

What sets her apart is the rare combination she brings: a strategist who builds systems, a clinician who designs education. She thinks about clinical education through the lens of adult learning theory and instructional design, but grounds every decision in real practitioner workflows and evidence-based practice. Whether serving as a strategic learning partner to a startup CEO or designing curriculum for a pharma client, she connects organizational goals to learner needs, translates strategy into execution, and measures what matters. Her clinical foundation - and her commitment to integrative, whole-person care - shape how she leads: rigorously evidence-based, deeply practitioner-centered, and always focused on measurable impact.