The Penn Integrates Knowledge program, launched in 2005, is a university-wide initiative “to recruit exceptional faculty members whose research and teaching exemplify the integration of knowledge across disciplines and who are appointed in at least two schools at Penn.”
Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey will serve as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Population Health and Health Equity Professor at the university, with joint faculty appointments in the department of medical ethics and health policy in the Perelman School of Medicine; the department of healthcare management in the Wharton School; and the department of family and community health in the School of Nursing.
Prior to joining the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey was the Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and director of the institute on aging at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey was the first woman and first African American to lead the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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