Lois Anne Katz, MD, FACP

Dr. Katz, a graduate of Wellesley College and NYU School of Medicine, is an internist and nephrologist who is the Associate Chief of Staff for Special Emphasis Programs and Quality Management at VA New York Harbor Healthcare System.

From 1980 to 2000 she was Associate Chief of Staff for Ambulatory Care. In that role she was responsible for implementing Primary Care and Home Based Primary Care at the New York VAMC.

She is Professor of Medicine at NYU School of Medicine; she teaches medical students and medical residents at NYU and the VA. Dr. Katz treats inpatients and outpatients; she specializes in managing patients with hypertension and patients with kidney disease including those on dialysis. She is also a primary care physician who has been a Preventive Medicine advocate for many years.

She is the VISN 3 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Program Manager and is a member of the Preventive Medicine Field Advisory Committee for VA. Her clinical research career spans more than 30 years; she was a principal investigator for the ALLHAT, ACCORD, and SPRINT studies (landmark NHLBI studies of the treatment of hypertension and diabetes) and many other antihypertensive drug studies.

She also supervises the Women Veterans Program, the Visually Impaired Services Team, and Employee Health Programs at VA NY Harbor. She was the Women’s Liaison Officer to the AAMC and chaired the Women in Medicine and Science Committee at NYU School of Medicine from 1980 until 2005.