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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A. Named Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President
Foundation Senior V.P. will succeed Steven A. Schroeder, M.D.
25 July 2002
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A. has been named the new president and chief executive officer of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the nation's largest health philanthropy. Currently senior vice president and director of the health care group at RWJF, Lavizzo-Mourey will succeed Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., who will retire in December 2002. Robert E. Campbell, chair of the RWJF trustees, who headed the search committee for the new chief executive, made the announcement after a board of trustees meeting today [25 July].
"The RWJF board is greatly pleased that Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey has accepted our offer to become the Foundation's next president and C.E.O.," Campbell said. "Risa has a superb record of accomplishment in academic medicine, in her specialty--geriatrics, in government and her most recent stint as senior vice president of RWJF. We know that she will continue the exemplary legacy of leadership and service in improving health and health care for all Americans set forth by Steve Schroeder and his predecessors, and we look forward to Risa's long and successful tenure."
Prior to joining RWJF as senior vice president in 2001, Lavizzo-Mourey served as Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and Health Care Systems at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She also directed the University's Institute on Aging and was Chief of the Medical School's Division of Geriatric Medicine. Lavizzo-Mourey served from 1992 to 1994 as deputy administrator of the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now Agency for Health Care Quality) while on leave from Penn. She also held faculty appointments at Penn's Wharton School of Finance and the School of Nursing.
Commenting on her appointment, Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey said: "I am humbled and honored by this opportunity. The mission and values of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, more than any other organization, present a way to truly improve the health and health care of Americans. Over the last year, it has been a great privilege to work with this outstanding group of grantees and dedicated RWJF staff and I look forward to continuing to work with them. I'm exceptionally fortunate to follow Dr. Steven Schroeder, whose extraordinary leadership has set new standards for philanthropy's role in social change."
A native of Seattle, Washington, Lavizzo-Mourey began her undergraduate education at the University of Washington. She transferred to the State University of New York at Stony Brook and, after completing her junior year there, was admitted to Harvard Medical School. After completing her medical degree at Harvard, she did her internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. In 1984, she was named a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and received her M.B.A. in Health Care Administration from Penn's Wharton School in 1986. She was appointed assistant professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine at Penn in 1986, associate professor in 1992, and became Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine in 1997.
Commenting on the appointment of his successor, Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., current president and C.E.O. of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said: "Almost 20 years ago, the Foundation identified Risa as an up-and-coming young leader in health care, when she was named a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Time and experience has only burnished our confidence in her--she has accomplished great things since in academic medicine, as a nationally recognized expert in health care policy, in government, and as an independent researcher and analyst.
"Last year," Schroeder said, "we were able to attract Risa to the Foundation as senior vice president and director of our health care group, and in only a short time, her vision and passion have helped the Foundation identify and work toward our goals, and those of our grantees, to ensure that Americans have access to quality health care at reasonable cost and to improve care for those with chronic conditions.
"Risa will be a terrific leader for this Foundation as we embark on our next phase of improving health and health care for all Americans. This is a wonderful choice for a wonderful organization," said Schroeder.
Lavizzo-Mourey is a member of the Institute of Medicine (I.O.M.) of the National Academy of Sciences and recently served as co-vice chair of the I.O.M. committee on eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in medical care, which recently issued the report Unequal Treatment. She is a Master and former Regent of the American College of Physicians and has chaired its ethics and human rights committee. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey served on the board of directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine as well as several corporations. She has also lectured and published extensively on issues of health care and health policy.
For three consecutive years Philadelphia Magazine cited Lavizzo-Mourey as one of Philadelphia's best doctors and she plans to resume the practice of medicine. She and her husband, Dr. Robert Lavizzo-Mourey, have two children and currently reside near Philadelphia.
For this Press Release, go to:
http://www.rwjf.org/newsEvents/mediaRelease.jsp?id=1027535543002
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
http://www.rwjf.org/
category: Member Organization News : Announcements
contributed by Katie Martin on 26 July 2002
North America : United States
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