Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD — research (health systems), education (teaching)
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With her book Risk Adjustment for Measuring Health Care Outcomes, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni (b. 1954) is recognized as a leading authority on measuring the severity of illness. She was the first woman to be promoted to professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and has based her career on answering the big questions in medicine today—questions of equality, efficiency, and ethics.
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