The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016] |
| Description | 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 52 min., 37 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2016.038 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Lavizzo-Mourey, Risa, interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey |
| Portion of title | Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey |
| Abstract | Professor and nonprofit executive Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey was born on September 25, 1954 in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from State University of New York-Stony Brook in 1975 and earned her M.D. degree in 1979 from Harvard Medical School. In 1984, Lavizzo-Mourey was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and received her M.B.A. degree in health policy from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. She then joined the faculty as an assistant professor. From 1992 to 1994, she directed health policy for the Bush and Clinton presidential administrations. Lavizzo-Mourey was hired as senior vice president of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2001 becoming president and CEO of the foundation in 2002. There, she launched a campaign against childhood obesity. Lavizzo-Mourey received numerous awards and was named Forbes magazine's twenty-second most powerful woman in the world and Modern Health's 100 Most Influential People in Health Care. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer | Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded New York, New York 2016 December 14. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2016.038 HistoryMakers |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |