Marion Ein Lewin
Marion Ein Lewin is a Holocaust survivor. According to available records, she and her twin brother, Steven Hess, are thought to be the youngest surviving twins of the Holocaust.
Marion Ein Lewin serves as a special projects health policy consultant and has written extensively on a wide range of health care topics.
Until September 2001, Marion Lewin served as Senior Staff Officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science and headed its Office of Health Policy Programs and Fellowships. In this position, she directed The Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships and other related programs. Ms. Lewin has also served as study director for major IOM reports including, “Balancing the Scales of Opportunity: Ensuring Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Health Professions,” Improving the Medicare Market : Adding Choice and Protections” and "America’s Health Care Safety Net: Intact but Endangered" (2000). Ms. Lewin worked at the IOM from 1987-2001.
Before coming to the IOM, Ms. Lewin was Director of the Center for Health Policy Research at the American Enterprise Institute; Deputy Director of the National Health Policy Forum at George Washington University; and a health legislative aide in the Congress.
Ms. Lewin is on the board of the DC Jewish Community Center and co-chairs the Council of Theatre J. Ms. Lewin is also vice-chair of the Montgomery County Primary Care Association and serves on the board of the Quality Health Foundation.
In 2008, Marion Ein Lewin was recognized for her lifetime achievements in leadership development and health care policy by the National Research Center for Women and Families. She received her undergraduate and graduate education at Barnard College and Columbia University.