Pamela Blikstad is an experienced financial professional with more than twenty years of working in the non-profit arena. She served as the Chief Financial Officer for Medical Teams International, a humanitarian aid and global health organization whose purpose is to provide life-saving medical care for people in crisis, particularly refugee health care and disaster relief. In 2019 Pamela left Medical Teams to join Providence St. Joseph Health as the Director of Finance for the organization’s new System Office of Philanthropy. In this role, she provides strategic business planning, oversight and implementation of health-care philanthropy best practices, and providing system support for regional leadership as they further the organization’s philanthropic efforts and results.