Job Title: President and CEO

Organization: Prevent Blindness Texas

Degree(s): BBA from the University of Houston

Heather Patrick has spent twenty years in the non-profit community serving at the local, regional, and national levels of healthcare non-profits. A versatile and strategic leader, she has a keen ability to leverage insights and analysis to build mission programs with maximum impact performing at elevated levels of effectiveness and efficiency. Throughout her successful career, she has focused on strategic systems and operations development; training and leadership development for nonprofit executives; strategic grant making; and development and branding initiatives.

Heather is currently the President and CEO of Prevent Blindness Texas. She is focused on leading a team across Texas to elevate vision care, improve overall health, deliver preventative screenings, navigate clients to resources, educate individuals about risk and advocate for improved access to care for clients. In 2019, Heather was awarded the Women Who Mean Business Award by the Houston Business Journal for her outstanding leadership and excellence in the Nonprofit Industry, and in 2025, she was recognized by the Houston Business Journal as one of the Most Admired CEOs in the Greater Houston area.

Heather currently serves as the Executive Vice President for the Klein ISD Education Foundation Board of Directors, serves on the Career and Technical Education Advisory Council for Klein ISD and serves as advisor to the UHD MA in Nonprofit Management program. She also chairs the Delta Gamma Foundation Richard D. Shirk Family Lectureship in Healthcare Values and Ethics at the University of Houston, advises the Delta Gamma Collegiate chapter at the University of Houston, and serves on the Delta Gamma Foundation Board of Trustees.

Ms. Patrick earned her BBA from the University of Houston.