President's Corner
This section presents selected communications from our president and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., about the mission, goals and programs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
A Woman in Medicine Reflects on Philanthropic Leadership
The American College of Physicians honors both Women's History Month and women in medicine with several online resources, including a Q&A with RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey.
(Mar 11, 2008)
Launch Event: RWJF Launches Commission to Build a Healthier America
On February 28, 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched the nonpartisan Commission to Build a Healthier America in a media briefing at Union Station in Washington, D.C.
(Feb 28, 2008)
Statement on IOM Report on "Knowing What Works in Health Care"
RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., comments on IOM's Knowing What Works in Health Care report, a road map for identifying the nation's most effective health care services.
(Jan 24, 2008)
Webcast: RWJF and AARP Foundation Establish Center to Address the Nursing Workforce Crisis
RWJF and the AARP Foundation host briefing at the National Press Club to provide details on the Center to Champion Nursing in America.
(Dec 6, 2007)
Improving Quality of U.S. Health Care Hinges on Improving Language Services
RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., provides the foreword to the Journal of General Internal Medicine supplement on language services which examines the consequences of language barriers for patients who speak little, if any, English in health...
(Nov 16, 2007)
Aligning the Forces of Health Care for Quality and Fairness for All
RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., presented the 2007 Hilde and Bill Birnbaum Endowed Lecture at the Group Health Center for Health Studies in Seattle.
(Nov 15, 2007)
More Health Care is Not Necessarily Better Care
RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., discusses findings from a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that is part of a groundbreaking effort to show what is happening to the quality of health care in America....
(Nov 13, 2007)
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