Meet-the-Experts Student Breakfast

Lisa I. Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc.

Dr. Iezzoni is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate director of the Institute for Health Policy (IHP), Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her degrees in medicine and health policy and management from Harvard University and spent 16 years in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Boston 's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center before joining the IHP in 2006. Dr. Iezzoni has conducted numerous studies for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institutes of Health, the Medicare agency, and private foundations on a variety of topics, including evaluating methods for predicting costs, clinical outcomes, and substandard quality of care. She has published and spoken widely on risk adjustment and has edited Risk Adjustment for Measuring Health Care Outcomes, now in its third edition (2003). With a 1996 Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Dr. Iezzoni began studying health care quality and health policy issues relating to persons with disabilities. Her book When Walking Fails was published in 2003, and More Than Ramps: A Guide to Improving Health Care Quality and Access for People with Disabilities, co-authored with Bonnie L. O'Day, appeared in 2006. Dr. Iezzoni serves on the editorial boards of major medical and health services research journals and in 2008 was appointed to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Advisory Committee on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine in the National Academy of Sciences.