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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Director
Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey was appointed to our Board in connection with the Spin-Off. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1986 until 2021, serving as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Professor of Health Equity and Health Policy from 2018 to 2021. From 2003 to 2017, Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey was the Chief Executive Officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where she spearheaded initiatives to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic, create an affordable and inclusive healthcare system, and address social factors associated with adverse health impacts. She also has extensive government experience in a wide range of roles from 1985 to 1998, including as a Co-Chair of the White House Health Care Reform Task Force and as an Advisory Committee Member on the President’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey has been on the board of directors of Better Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTTX) since 2021, where she serves on the compensation committee, on the board of directors of Intel (NYSE: INTC) since 2018, where she is chair of the corporate governance and nominating committee and a member of the audit and finance committee and the compensation committee, on the board of directors of Merck (NYSE: MRK) since 2020, where she is a member of the compensation and management development committee and the research committee, and on the board of directors of General Electric (NYSE: GE) since 2017, where she sits on the governance & public affairs committee. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey has a B.S. from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, an M.D. from Harvard University, and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.