Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey famous quotes

Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Hard Work #Goal #Want

I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Views #Roots #Long

It is a proud moment when you can define a problem and make a commitment and begin to see a groundswell of activity towards addressing what has the potential to change the life trajectory of millions of kids.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Kids #Commitment #Proud

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Appreciation #Real #Doctors

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Needs #Care #Tables

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Thinking #Order #Physicians

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Patient

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Medical Problems #People #Challenges

I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Physicians #Realization #Academic

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Thinking #People #House