Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

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Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey is the President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, One of America's largest philanthropic organizations devoted to health and health care. She is the first woman and the first African-American to head the Foundation, which has an endowment of about $8 billion and distributes more than $400 million a year.

Risa was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes in 2008 and one of The Grio's History Makers in the Making As of 2014, she is listed as the 88th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.

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1954
Seattle

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MBA, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Health administration
( - 1986)
Doctor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
( - 1979)
Harvard University
Stony Brook University
University of Pennsylvania

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President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(2003/01 - )
Senior Vice President and Director, Health Care Group, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(2001 - 2003)
Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and Health Care Systems, Perelman School of Medicine
(1997 - 2001)
Director, Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania
Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Associate Chief of Staff, Geriatrics and Extended Care, Philadelphia Veterans Administration Health Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
(1992 - 1997)
Deputy Administrator, Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research, United States Department of Health and Human Services
(1997 - )
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
(1986 - 1992)
Clinical Instructor, Temple University School of Medicine
(1982 - 1984)

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on July 23, 2013

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