denise lishner

Biographical Information

Denise Lishner, MSW, has been Research Coordinator at the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center, the Center for Health Workforce Studies and the UW Department of Family Medicine since 1988, In this capacity Ms. Lishner has been involved in grant development, project management, data collection activities, securing human subjects approval, conducting comprehensive reviews and syntheses of health research literature, writing and editing policy briefs and manuscripts. Research areas that she has been involved in include disparities in cancer screening and treatment, models to increase the supply of various types of health care professionals in underserved and rural areas, optimizing approaches to the management of chronic care conditions, productivity of family medicine residency training programs, and strategies to increase access to care. Prior to her position in Family Medicine she coordinated research projects in the areas of substance abuse and AIDS prevention and treatment and in the prevention of juvenile delinquency at the University of Washington School of Social Work, the King County Health Department, and the Alcohol Research Group at the University of California School of Public Health in Berkeley. She grew up in NYC, received a BA from the University of California in Berkeley and an MSW with an emphasis in research from the University of Washington.