I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that th…

- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patient…

- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your cl…

- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies f…

- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

It is a proud moment when you can define a problem and make a commitment and begin to see a groundswell of activity towards addressing what has the p…

- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught …

- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

- Risa J. 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, comp…

- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people hea…

- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey