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Dr Lavizzo-Mourey is a geriatrician and health policy expert who has devoted her career to improving health, health care and health equity in the United States as a medical practitioner, professor, and non-profit executive. As the long serving President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Dr Lavizzo-Mourey worked extensively with national and local organizations to define and commit to building a culture of health throughout the country.

At the University of Pennsylvania, she held a university wide professorship with appointments in the Pearlman School of Medicine, the Wharton School of Business, and the Nursing School. Dr Lavizzo-Mourey’s accomplishments have been recognized with numerous honorary degrees, election to The American Philosophical Society and The National Academy of Medicine including conferring its highest honor, the Gustav O. Lienhard Award. In addition to the Smithsonian Board of Regents, Lavizzo-Mourey serves on the TIAA’s Board of Governors, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Board of Trustees, and on the Board of Directors of several public companies.