Quotes by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

About Risa Lavizzo-Mourey:

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.
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I wanted to go from seeing the individual patient to seeing the plural - the whole population as a market. You want to see the larger population, yet at the same time you need to understand the impact of decisions on individuals.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Electronic medical records are, in a lot of ways, I think the aspect of technology that is going to revolutionize the way we deliver care. And it's not just that we will be able to collect information, it's that everyone involved in the healthcare en...

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a gr...

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Author Bio

  • NameRisa Lavizzo-Mourey
  • DescriptionAmerican healthcare administrator
  • Born1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America