Pamela Corcoran

Areas of expertise: Aging equity, community engagement and resource navigation, clinical trials, program planning and evaluation, policy and regulatory reform, restorative justice

Bio: Pamela Corcoran is a tri-racial mother and grandmother who lives in a very small town of 7000 residents in rural midcoast Maine. She works at the intersection of public health and social justice, driven by a lifetime of experiencing and witnessing extreme barriers to appropriate medical care. Since its outset, her career has been focused on expanding community engagement in healthcare service design, delivery, and governance as a system designer, program manager, and policy advocate. She is a D-SNP beneficiary, a 20-year unpaid family caregiver, and a patient with complex care needs. Pamela co-administers a social media group of almost 6,000 members practicing ecological agriculture and keeps a large garden that allows her to prepare delicious food grown within walking distance of her home. She is also a book club geek and a writer of ancestral family stories.

Experience:

• Charter Member, National Consumer Advisory Council, Center to Advance Consumer Partnership, 2024 to present
• National Consumer Scholar, Camden Coalition, 2023-2024
• Client Advisory Council, Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care, 2023 to present
• Equal Justice Partners Circle,  Maine Equal Justice, 2021 to present
• Policy and Community Engagement Volunteer AARP-Maine, 2018 to present
• Panelist at Putting Care at the Center’s Pre-Conference Symposium – “Understanding Patient Impact: What Does Current Research Reveal about Supporting Social Care Interventions through Healthcare Settings?”, 2024
• Panelist on SIREN webinar- Consumer perspectives on the Camden Coalition care management RCT study findings, 2024
• Regional Contributor to Maine’s Roadmap to End Hunger By 2030 , 2020 to 2022
• AmeriCorps VISTA, 2019-2021