The Outstanding Dissertation award honors an outstanding scientific contribution from a doctoral thesis in health services research. Judging by the innovative research, this doctoral candidate shows exceptional promise as a health services researcher.
Degrees are dated to time of award. Affiliations denote the training program in which the dissertation was written.
2023
Kelsey Owsley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of... Read Bio
Honorable Mention
Rebecca A. Gourevitch, Ph.D.
Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Maryland, College Park
2022
Shekinah A. Fashaw-Walters, PhD, is an Professor in Assistant Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the Perelman S... Read Bio
Honorable Mention
Joseph Dov Bruch, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy
2021
Alex Gertner completed a Ph.D. in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UNC Gillings School of... Read Bio
2020
Savannah Bergquist is a postdoctoral scholar at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, B... Read Bio
Sarah Gordon is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston U... Read Bio
2019
Jamie Daw is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University M... Read Bio
2018
Dr. Xu Ji is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine in ... Read Bio
2017
Dr. Haffajee's research combines detailed legal analyses with empirical investigations of the relationships be... Read Bio
2016
Craig D. Holden, Ph.D., M.P.H.
University of Maryland, School of Public Health
"Preventive Services Use – Disparities and Changes Following Health Care Reform"
Honorable Mention
Aaron L. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Harvard University
"Measuring Health Care Quality and Value: Theory and Empirics"
2015
David K. Jones, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
“Implementing Obamacare: Intergovernmental Battles over the Creation of Health Care Exchanges”
Honorable Mention
William V. Padula, Ph.D., M.S.
University of Colorado
“Comparative Effectiveness of Quality Improvement Interventions for Pressure Ulcer Prevention in U.S. Academic Hospitals"
2014
Alva O. Ferdinand, Dr.P.H., J.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Studies on Distracted Driving: Three Papers Examining the State of the Literature and the Impact of Texting Restrictions on Motor Vehicle Crash-Related Fatalities and Hospitalizations”
2013
Alicia L. Cooper, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Brown University, Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice
“Predictors and Outcomes of High-Risk Prescribing among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries”
2012
Helen M. Parsons, Ph.D., M.P.H.
University of Minnesota
“A Culture of Quality? Lymph Node Evaluation for Colon Cancer Care”
2011
Dr. Adler-Milstein is a leading researcher in health IT policy, with a specific focus on electronic health rec... Read Bio
Honorable Mention
A health economist, Carrie Colla focuses on physician payment, health insurance markets, and insurance benefit... Read Bio
2010
Janet Cummings, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
"Mental Health Counseling Use Among Adolescents: An Elaboration of the Role of Contextual Sociodemographic Characteristics"
2009
Andrew Ryan, Ph.D., M.A.
Brandeis University
"The Design of Value-Based Purchasing in Medicare: Theory and Empirical Evidence"
2008
Dr. McWilliams is the Warren Alpert Foundation Professor of Health Care Policy and a Professor of Medicine at ... Read Bio
2007
Benjamin Le Cook, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Harvard University
“The Hunt for the Right Counterfactual: Estimating Disparities in Minority Health Care”
2006
Benjamin Sommers, M.D., Ph.D., is the Huntley Quech Professor of Health Care Economics at the Harvard School o... Read Bio
2005
Rachel M. Werner, M.D., Ph.D.
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
“Testing theories of discrimination in health care: evidence from New York’s CABG report card”
2004
Anita L. Tucker, D.B.A.
Harvard University Business School
“Organizational learning from operational failures”
2003
Jill R. Horwitz, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.P.
Ph.D. Program in Health Policy
Harvard University
“Corporate Form of Hospitals: Behavior and Obligations”
2002
Denys T. Lau, Ph.D.
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
“Potentially inappropriate medication prescriptions among geriatric nursing home residents: its scope, risk factors, and health consequences”
2001
Erik Michiel van Barneveld, Ph.D.
Erasmus University
“Risk sharing as a supplement to imperfect capitation in health insurance: a trade-off between selection and efficiency”
Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Ph.D.
Department of Health Policy and Administration
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Informal care and elderly health care use”
2000
Glen Mays, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Department of Health Policy and Administration
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Managed care contracting and community health care performance”