Lisa Iezzoni

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Lisa I. Iezzoni (born 1954)[1] is an American medical researcher with expertise in health policy. She is a professor at Harvard Medical School,[2] as well as the director of the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital.[3] She is known for her research on health disparities among people with disabilities.[1][4]

Education[]

Iezzoni attended the Harvard School of Public Health in the 1970's, from which she received a master's degree in health policy. She went on to enroll in Harvard Medical School, only to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her first year as a student there.[1][5][6] She received her M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1984.[7][8] She subsequently decided to become a medical research instead of a practicing doctor, because of the difficulties associated with practicing medicine with a disability at the time (the Americans with Disabilities Act had not yet been passed).[9][10]

Career[]

After receiving her M.D., Iezzoni served as an assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine, while also working in the Health Care Research Unit there.[1] For sixteen years, she was director of research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she became the first woman affiliated with the Center to be appointed a professor at Harvard Medical School.[5] In 2006, she became the associate director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Partners Institute for Health Policy (since renamed the Mongan Institute for Health Policy), and became its director in 2009.[5] One of the students she mentored at Harvard Medical School was Cheri Blauwet.[11] She wrote When Walking Fails, Mobility Problems of Adults with Chronic Conditions.[9]

Honors and awards[]

In 1996, Iezzoni received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.[1] In 2000, she was named a member of the Institute of Medicine.[5] She has served on the National Quality Forum's board of directors, and has received the 's Founder's Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field. She was also included in a National Institutes of Health exhibit on American women physicians who are "changing the face of medicine".[12]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Dr. Lisa I. Iezzoni". Changing the Face of Medicine. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  2. ^ "Doctor's visits can be real hurdles for disabled people". The Denver Post. 2018-10-28. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  3. ^ "Lisa I. Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc". RWJCSP. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  4. ^ Gordon, Elana (2018-04-14). "Doctors with disabilities seek to mend attitudes". The Philadelphia Tribune. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Iezzoni leads Institute for Health Policy". Massachusetts General Hospital (Press release). 2009-05-01. Archived from the original on 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  6. ^ "Doctors With Disabilities Push For Culture Change In Medicine". www.kcur.org. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  7. ^ "MGH Find a Researcher: Lisa Iezzoni, MD". Massachusetts General Hospital. Archived from the original on 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  8. ^ "What does it mean to be a doctor with a disability?". WHYY. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Shapiro, Joseph (2003-10-16). "When Walking Fails". NPR. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  10. ^ Villarosa, Linda (2003-11-25). "Barriers Toppling for Disabled Medical Students". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  11. ^ Blauwet, Cheri (2017-12-06). "I Use a Wheelchair. And Yes, I'm Your Doctor". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  12. ^ "Lisa Iezzoni, MD". NMSS. Archived from the original on 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
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