Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, Named Head of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

An excerpt from the Wharton Health Care Association Alumni web.

"A native of Seattle, Washington, Risa began her studies at the University of Washington. She transferred to the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was admitted to Harvard Medical School after her junior year of college. Upon completion of her medical degree at Harvard, Risa did her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She was appointed assistant professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine at Penn in 1986, associate professor in 1992 and the Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine in 1997.

In speaking of her new position, Risa said that RWJF, which distributes more than $500 million in grants and contracts each year, will continue to focus on public health and health care. It will continue to make grants to prevent smoking and substance abuse, support projects to increase coverage for the uninsured, deal with issues involving long-term health care and improve care for terminally ill people. RWJF selected Risa in part because of her tremendous vision and passion that will ensure that these goals will be met in the years to come."

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When we (Rebecca Bryson--patient, John Hayward--CEO of PeaceHealth, and Marc Pierson--Exec of Perusing Perfection in Whatcom County) went to Capital Hill to present our ideas for consideration last week we created a "one pager" to leave behind. You may find it interesting. Obviously, it is brief, hopefully concise, but not complete. It may be useful to explain Pursuing Perfection to friends or acquaintances. It is a MS Word document.

Premier has been helping Whatcom county advocate our position in Washington D.C. They they reported on John Hayward's participation in a National Health Policy Forum meeting on Capital Hill in Washington, D.C. last Wednesday. The news article is captioned "CEO of Premier owner PeaceHealth: Breakdown of health system silos would go a long way toward sustained improvement of patient care." Rebecca Bryson and I, along with 15 others from other Pursuing Perfection sites were in the audience. This forum and our meetings with our Congressional Members was arranged by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through their CONNECT group.

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