Recognizing leaders who have made significant and lasting contributions to the field of health services research.
Titles, affiliations, and degrees are dated to time of award.
2023
Katherine Baicker, a leading scholar in the economic analysis of health care policy, is Dean and the Emmett De... Read Bio
2022
John F. Holahan, (Ph.D. in Economics, Georgetown University), is the founder of the Urban Institute’s Health P... Read Bio
2021
Posthumously to Philip Randolph Lee, M.D.
2020
David Asch is Executive Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation and the John Morgan Pr... Read Bio
2019
Diane Rowland, Executive Vice President, is a nationally recognized health policy expert with a distinguished ... Read Bio
2018
Dr. Richard G. Frank is the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care ... Read Bio
2017
John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., is the inaugural director of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation... Read Bio
2016
Mary D. Naylor, Ph.D.
Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology
Director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
2015
Arnold M. Epstein, M.D., M.A.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Department of Health and Human Services
Harvard School of Public Health
2014
Jeffrey Alexander, Ph.D.
Richard Carl Jelinek Professor of Health Management and Policy
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources, School of Business
Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
2013
Donald M. Steinwachs, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Interim Director, Institute for Policy Studies
2012
Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Effectiveness & Safety Research
Kaiser Permanente
2011
Vince Mor, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Science
Department of Community Health
Brown University School Program in Public Health
2010
Lisa I. Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
2009
Willard Manning, Ph.D.
Professor
Public Policy
University of Chicago
2008
David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P.
Director
Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System
2007
Mark V. Pauly, PhD, is Bendheim Professor in the Department of Health Care Management, Professor of Health Car... Read Bio
2006
Karen Davis, Ph.D.
President
The Commonwealth Fund
2005
Linda H. Aiken, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
University of Pennsylvania
2004
Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D.
Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy
Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D.
James Madison Professor of Political Economy
Princeton University
2003
Emmett B. Keeler, Ph.D.
Senior Mathematician, RAND Health
Professor, RAND Graduate School
and the University of California, Los Angeles
School of Public Health
2002
Paul D. Cleary, M.D.
Professor of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
2001
Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., M.P.H.
Director and Principal Investigator (PI)
Research Center on Managed Care for Psychiatric Disorders
Director
NPI Health Services Research Center
University of California, Los Angeles
2000
Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D.
Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis
John F. Kennedy School of Government
and Harvard University School of Public Health
1999
Harold S. Luft, Ph.D.
Caldwell B. Esselstyn Professor of Health Policy and Health Economics
Director Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
1998
Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D.
Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, and Professor of Organization Behavior
School of Public Health,
University of California, Berkeley
1997
Milton I. Roemer, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Department of Health Services
School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
1996
Ronald M. Andersen, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Health Services
School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
1995
Barbara Starfield, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Head
Division of Health Policy
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
1994
John E. Ware, Jr., Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
The Health Institute
New England Medical Center
1993
Robert H. Brook, M.D., Sc.D.
Professor
Department of Health Services
Center for Health Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
Director
Health Sciences Program
RAND
John E. Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H.
Director
Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
Dartmouth Medical School
1992
Joseph P. Newhouse, Ph.D.
Director
Division of Health Policy Research and Education
Harvard University
1991
David Mechanic, Ph.D.
Director
Institute for Health
Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Rutgers University
1990
Eli Ginzberg, Ph.D.
Director
Conservation of Human Resources
Columbia University
1989
Herbert E. Klarman, Ph.D.
Retired
1988
Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D.
Henry J. Kaiser Professor
Stanford University
Cecil G. Sheps, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Social Medicine
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
1987
Kerr L. White, M.D.
Consultant
1986
Paul M. Densen, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
Harvard University
Odin Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
University of Chicago
1985
Avedis Donabedian, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Public Health
University of Michigan
Sam Shapiro
Professor Emeritus
Johns Hopkins University