{"id":2178,"date":"2026-02-04T12:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/?page_id=2178"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:39:05","slug":"lisa-force","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/faculty-staff\/lisa-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Force"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lisa Force<\/h2>\n

Assistant Professor<\/em><\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> lforce@uw.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Office Hours:<\/strong> Starting in January ’22: Thursdays 9-10 am. Email to arrange.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lisa Force, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology\/Oncology, at the University of Washington School of Medicine. At IHME, she leads cancer modeling for the institute\u2019s Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study and her research interests include global pediatric oncology, global cancer epidemiology, and cancer disparities. She believes in health equity and cultural humility.<\/p>\n

Dr. Force earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Oregon, her medical degree at the Boston University School of Medicine, and her MPH degree with a focus in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed a clinical residency in Pediatrics at the University of Washington\/Seattle Children\u2019s Hospital (UW\/SCH) and fellowships in Pediatric Hematology\/Oncology and Global Pediatric Medicine at St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital. She has previously worked clinically caring for children with cancer, blood disorders, and HIV in Botswana and is currently an attending physician in Pediatric Hematology\/Oncology at Seattle Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lisa Force Assistant Professor Email: lforce@uw.edu Office Hours: Starting in January ’22: Thursdays 9-10 am. Email to arrange. Lisa Force, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology\/Oncology, at the University of Washington School of Medicine. At IHME, she leads cancer modeling for the institute\u2019s Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study and her research interests include…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":1999,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-no-title.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2178\/revisions\/2409"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}