Elizabeth Antonia Kormos was born on September 9, 1951 in Providence, Rhode Island, to Kalman Kormos, a mechanical engineer, and Antonia Rosa Olivia von Csipkay. She graduated from Scituate Junior-Senior High school in Scituate, Rhode Island in 1969. She attended Mount Holyoke College from 1969-1973 and majored in biological sciences. She received her M.S. and M.B.A. from Northeastern University. Kormos has served as an Assistant Vice President of Baylor Health Care Systems Marketing in Dallas, Texas and as a Vice President of Iroquois Healthcare Consortium in Albany, New York.