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AcademyHealth Methods Council Members
 Lisa I. Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc., is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of Research in
the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center in Boston. She received her degrees in medicine and health policy and management from Harvard University. Dr. Iezzoni has conducted numerous studies for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Medicare agency, and private foundations on a variety of topics, including evaluating methods for predicting costs, clinical outcomes, and substandard quality of care. She has published and spoken widely on risk adjustment and has edited a textbook, now in its third edition (2003), on risk adjustment for measuring health care outcomes. A 1996 recipient of the Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she is studying health policy issues relating to persons with disabilities. Dr. Iezzoni is a member of the Institute of Medicine in the National Academy of Sciences, serves on the editorial boards of major medical and health services research journals, and is on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum. Her book When Walking Fails was published in the spring 2003.
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