Pamela (Pam) Lowney, who joined Fistula Foundation in 2018 as director of strategic initiatives, is now chief operating officer. Pam will take over as chief executive officer in August 2025.
Pam joined the Foundation in 2018 to lead the redesign of Fistula Foundation’s web presence to expand its global community of supporters. As chief operating officer, she oversaw process and IT improvements across the Foundation’s program, fundraising, and administrative functions.
Prior to her roles at the Foundation, Pam spent more than a decade working at the intersection of health, communications, and technology at Stanford Medicine, a leading academic medical center. As digital content lead for Stanford Health Care, she led the content strategy effort to transform the healthcare system’s online user experience and better serve the needs of patients across the care journey. In 2017, she launched a digital content program, supporting care delivery across Stanford’s 250+ complex care clinics and primary care network.
Pam also served as lead content strategist on two redesigns of the medical center’s web environment. Both projects received a national Award of Excellence by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), an industry top honor.
Pam’s professional path is grounded in a passion for improving human health, shaped by her early experience as a journalist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and her hands-on work connecting underserved communities in the U.S. to essential health care, including serving in roles at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic in San Francisco and at Centro Adelante Campesino, a migrant farmworker center in Arizona. Pam holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s in public health degree in health management and policy from the University of California, Los Angeles.