Lisa Iezzoni

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 American College of Medical Quality'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. "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. "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. 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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