|  Susan
Edgman-Levitan, PA
Executive Director
John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation Massachusetts
General Hospital
Boston, MA Class of 1977
Induction: 2004 Susan Edgman-Levitan is a graduate of the University of Michigan
and the Duke University Physician Assistant program, magna cum laude.She
is Executive Director of the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary
Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital, and is a Lecturer
in the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and
Associate in Health Policy, Harvard Medical School.
Ms. Edgman-Levitan was the founding President of the Picker Institute.
Prior to this she directed planning for the Health and Hospitals
Corporation of New York City and was an assistant professor at Duke
University Medical School. Ms. Edgman-Levitan was the co-principal
investigator on the Harvard Consumer Assessment of Health Plans
Study from 1995-2001 and is continuing as co-PI on the Harvard CAHPS
II study team, 2002-2007. She has served as Chair of the IHI Breakthrough
Series Collaborative on Improving Service Quality, and is the IHI
Fellow for Patient and Family-Centered Care. She is an editor of
Through the Patient’s Eyes, a book on creating and sustaining
patient centered care. She serves on several boards including Planetree,
the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Center for Information
Therapy, the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, and
the American Academy on Physician and Patient. She was the co-chair
of the 5th Annual NPSF Congress on Patient Safety and will co-chair
the 2004 Congress.
Ms. Edgman-Levitan lives in Boston MA with her husband, Richard,
and daughter, Amelia. < < < Back
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