On September 14, 2016, Education Online's Jacob M. Appel MD, talked with Jo Ivey Boufford, MD, about her own, unique approach to fostering change in health care.
"I've never been a big activist from the outside, but from the inside," says Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford, President of the New York Academy of Medicine. "I liked clinical practice a lot and I really enjoyed working with the patients," she explains, noting that she practiced pediatrics for fifteen years, "but I felt I would have more impact entering the policy arena or the management arena, working on institutional change or policy change." Her groundbreaking career witnessed her becoming the first woman to run New York City's Health and Hospitals Corporation in 1985; later, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services under President Clinton and as dean of NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Since 2007, at the helm of the 169-year-old Academy, one of the nation's leading healthcare advocacy organizations, she has brought this experience to bear on systemic factors affecting the wellbeing of New Yorkers.
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