denise lishner, msw

Ms. Lishner completed her B.A. at the University of California in Berkeley and an M.S.W. at the UW in 1978. She has coordinated research projects at the University of California School of Public Health, the Seattle/King County Department of Public Health, and the UW School of Social Work and Department of Family Medicine, in the areas of substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, AIDS, and rural health care. Denise has been with the Department of Family Medicine since 1988, and serves as research coordinator for numerous rural health and cancer prevention and treatment studies, grantwriter, co-author, and editor of the WWAMI RHRC working paper series. Raised in Manhattan, she is committed to improving health access and outcomes for underserved populations in rural and urban areas.