Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President to Deliver Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will deliver the Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture, on Wednesday, May 21.
Lavizzo-Mourey will give her talk, titled "Building a Social Movement to Reverse Childhood Obesity," from noon to 1 p.m. in Cole Hall Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, on the Parnassus campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. The Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture Series, established in 2006, brings a major figure in health policy to the UCSF campus to raise awareness in the community of the important health policy issues of the day. A national leader in transforming America's health care systems, Lavizzo-Mourey is a practicing physician with business credentials and hands-on experience in developing national health policy. Driven by the belief that the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is a steward of private resources that must be used in the public's interest, particularly to help the most vulnerable, Lavizzo-Mourey combines the values she learned as a doctor - public service commitment - with the skills and knowledge from her business training - the importance of measuring results and outcomes, ensuring accountability, and taking a disciplined approach to managing resources and motivating people. Under Lavizzo-Mourey's leadership, the foundation has restructured its strategic investments to target a set of high-impact priorities, including halting the rise in childhood obesity by 2015. Lavizzo-Mourey was a leader in academic medicine, government service and her medical specialty of geriatrics before joining the foundation in 2001 as senior vice president and director of the health care group. Previously, at the University of Pennsylvania, she was the Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and Health Care systems and director of Penn's Institute on Aging. In Washington, DC, Lavizzo-Mourey was deputy administrator of what is now the Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Raised in Seattle by physician parents, Lavizzo-Mourey earned a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and an MBA degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania; and trained in geriatrics at Penn. Related Links: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Lavizzo-Mourey will give her talk, titled "Building a Social Movement to Reverse Childhood Obesity," from noon to 1 p.m. in Cole Hall Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, on the Parnassus campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. The Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture Series, established in 2006, brings a major figure in health policy to the UCSF campus to raise awareness in the community of the important health policy issues of the day. A national leader in transforming America's health care systems, Lavizzo-Mourey is a practicing physician with business credentials and hands-on experience in developing national health policy. Driven by the belief that the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is a steward of private resources that must be used in the public's interest, particularly to help the most vulnerable, Lavizzo-Mourey combines the values she learned as a doctor - public service commitment - with the skills and knowledge from her business training - the importance of measuring results and outcomes, ensuring accountability, and taking a disciplined approach to managing resources and motivating people. Under Lavizzo-Mourey's leadership, the foundation has restructured its strategic investments to target a set of high-impact priorities, including halting the rise in childhood obesity by 2015. Lavizzo-Mourey was a leader in academic medicine, government service and her medical specialty of geriatrics before joining the foundation in 2001 as senior vice president and director of the health care group. Previously, at the University of Pennsylvania, she was the Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and Health Care systems and director of Penn's Institute on Aging. In Washington, DC, Lavizzo-Mourey was deputy administrator of what is now the Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Raised in Seattle by physician parents, Lavizzo-Mourey earned a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and an MBA degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania; and trained in geriatrics at Penn. Related Links: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation