Adrienne B. Mendoza

Adrienne Mendoza is a healthcare executive advancing decentralized models that expand patient access to advanced therapies. Her work aligns with the foundational pillars of access — Place, Knowledge, and Affordability — ensuring innovation reaches patients beyond traditional centralized systems. With leadership experience across blood services, emergency transfusion programs, and cell therapy infrastructure, Adrienne has built scalable models that move critical starting points of care closer to the patient. She led the implementation of low-titer O whole blood on ambulances and air medical transport in South Texas and later pioneered mobile leukapheresis services to support distributed access to cell and gene therapies.