Barry Liden

Director of Public Policy at Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics

Speaker

Barry Liden is Director of Public Policy for the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, helping measurably improve value in health through evidence-based policy solutions, research excellence, and private and public-sector engagement.

Before joining USC in 2022, Liden served as a medical device industry executive at Edwards Lifesciences for almost two decades. His career there culminated as Vice President of Patient Engagement where he created a new function to engage with, learn from and empower patients to improve the healthcare experience. Liden joined Edwards in 2002 as Director of Global Communications, and served in several public affairs positions, including Vice President of Government Affairs.

Liden is also Founder and Managing Advisor of Patient Voice Advisors, a resource hub for organizations seeking to empower patients’ perspectives throughout all phases of health technology innovation.

For more than three decades, Liden has integrated public policy, government relations, public relations and crisis management practices to provide strategic solutions to unique challenges.  His passion is to bring novel approaches that can improve the lives of everyone in this global community. He currently serves as a Member of the Maryland Commission on Aging, serves as chair-emeritus in the Medical Device Innovation Consortium’s patient-focused working groups, and serves on the Health Technology Assessment International’s (HTAi) Patient and Community Involvement Working Group Steering Committee.

Liden has a bachelor of science in public administration from the University of Southern California, and a juris doctor from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles.  He lives in Garrett Park, Maryland.