Biography

Manoja Ratnayake Lecamwasam, PhD, MBA is the System Vice President, Intellectual Property and Life Sciences Innovation at CommonSpirit Health. In her role managing the IP function, Dr. Lecamwasam provides leadership and guidance to develop IP-related strategic and operational initiatives for CommonSpirit Health and manages a team of IP professionals who are responsible for the evaluation, protection and commercialization of CommonSpirit Health’s IP and internal innovations. Dr. Lecamwasam also leads the Strategic Innovation functions’ evaluation of innovative life sciences products and services prior to their introduction to CommonSpirit Health stakeholders. Currently, Dr. Lecamwasam is the Chair of the CommonSpirit Life Sciences Innovation Council and is an executive member of the PCORI Health System Implementation Initiative (HSII) Grant Steering Committee at CommonSpirit. Additionally, Dr. Lecamwasam is the Board Chair of the CommonSpirit Precision Medicine Alliance (PMA) which was established to provide system-level support for current and future precision/personalized medicine-based decision support tools/innovations and best practices in the CommonSpirit Health regions and markets. Previously, Dr. Lecamwasam served as the Executive Director, Intellectual Property and Strategic Innovation for Dignity Health. Prior to joining Dignity Health (then Catholic Healthcare West), Dr. Lecamwasam served as a Senior Licensing Manager and Licensing Associate in the Office of Corporate Sponsored Research and Licensing at Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners Healthcare. Dr. Lecamwasam holds a PhD degree in Molecular Microbiology from Tufts University School of Medicine, MBA from the University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, MSc degree in Molecular Biology from Northeastern University, MA and a BA with honors in Biology from Mills College in Oakland, CA.