Lisa Lehmann

Dr. Lisa Soleymani Lehmann is a primary care physician and bioethicist. She serves as Chief Medical Officer for the VA New England Healthcare System which is a multi-state integrated healthcare system comprised of 8 medical centers and 41 community-based outpatient clinics that serves over 260,000 Veterans. Prior to serving VA New England, Lisa was Executive Director of the VA National Center for Ethics in Health Care and Director of Bioethics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Lisa is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Lisa is a graduate of Cornell University, where she was a College Scholar studying philosophy, chemistry and near eastern studies. She received her MD and PhD in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, completed her residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and was a fellow in the HMS Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care and the HMS Fellowship in Medical Ethics. She received a Master of Science in clinical epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Her research focuses on how to improve care for patients and families at the end of life, the relationship between moral courage, speaking up and patient safety, how to responsibly integrate genomics into clinical medicine, and the intersection of ethics and health policy. Dr. Lehmann was Chair of the Society of General Internal Medicine Ethics Committee, Chair of the Framingham Heart Study Ethics Advisory Board, a member of the American College of Physicians Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee, and Chair of the HMS Scholars in Medicine Medical Humanities Advisory Committee.