Lisa Iezzoni, MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and based at the Health Policy Research Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Iezzoni has conducted numerous studies for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Institutes of Health, the Medicare agency, and private foundations. Her early career focused on risk adjustment methods for costs and clinical outcomes and assessing quality of care; she wrote and edited Risk Adjustment for Measuring Health Care Outcomes, now in its fourth edition. Since 1998, her research has focused on improving the lived experiences and health care quality of adults with disability. 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. Her most recent book is Making Their Days Happen: Paid Personal Assistance Services Supporting People with Disability Living in Their Homes and Communities (2022). Dr. Iezzoni spends considerable volunteer time advocating for persons with disability, serving on the Board of the Boston Center for Independent Living since 2005. Dr. Iezzoni is a member of the National Academy of Medicine in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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