School Story:
Carol L. Horvitz, JD, MPH, has been involved in health care and law for over thirty-five years. She was active in the stem cell research debate and served as a member of the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committees at Boston Children’s Hospital, the Joslin Diabetes Center, and as the Massachusetts liaison for the Genetics Policy Institute. Earlier she established a pro-bono legal practice taking family, health and disability law cases and volunteered as an advocate for battered and abused women. Previously she had worked at a multi-state oncology consortium in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana and then with the National Cancer Institute to create a national computerized cancer data system.
She is an Overseer of the Joslin Diabetes Center, a Trustee of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and earlier served on the Board of Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates. Most recently Carol has agreed to serve on the board of Ocean Genome Legacy, an organization dedicated to the preservation of knowledge of threaded marine organisms and ecosystems.
Carol has a JD and Masters in Public Health from the Boston University School of Law and School of Public Health, a B.A. in History from Tufts University, and an AA in Health Information Management from Cincinnati Technical College, and Biochemistry Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
Active in the art world, she is a member of several visiting and collection committees at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard Art Museum, and the Cincinnati Museum of Art. She maintains an Asian art collection, most notably Imperial Chinese lacquer and modern Japanese ceramics, with ongoing loans at eighteen museums throughout the U.S. Her husband Jeffrey is also a renowned art collector, having one of the most extensive collections of French old master drawings.
In addition to visiting art museums around the world, her interests include photography, scuba diving and salsa dancing.
She and her husband live in Beverly Farms, and have three adult children, two grandchildren, and a dog, Frago, named after the French painter.
