Robert S. Lawrence, M.D.

Recruitment and Screening Panel

Dr. Lawrence is Edyth Schoenrich Professor of Preventative Medicine and Associate Dean for Professional Education & Programs, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He served for three years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Centers for Disease Control, US Public Health Service. Dr. Lawrence is a Master of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Preventive Medicine, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, the Society of General Internal Medicine, the American Public Health Association, and Physicians for Human Rights. From 1970-1974 he was a member of the faculty of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he helped develop a primary health care system funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity. In 1974 he was appointed as the first Director of the Division of Primary Care at Harvard Medical School, where he subsequently served as the Charles S. Davidson Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of Medicine at the Cambridge Hospital until 1991. From 1991-1995 he was the Director of Health Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation. From 1984-1989 Dr. Lawrence chaired the US Preventive Services Task Force of the Department of Health and Human Services and served on the successor Preventive Services Task Force from 1990-1995. He chaired the Committee on Vaccine Priorities for the 21st Century at the Institute of Medicine, the Committee on Dioxins in the Food Supply, currently chairs the Committee to Assess Health Measures, and serves as a consultant to the task Force on Community Preventive Services at the CDC. In May 2000, Dr. Lawrence was installed as the first Edyth H. Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. In 2002, hereceived the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarianism Award.