I had an interest in health ...

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

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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
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