Dr. Weinberger is Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Vergil N. Slee Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Quality Management at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is a health services researcher who for 40 years has conducted randomized controlled trials to evaluate strategies to improve the process and outcomes of care for socioeconomically and/or medically vulnerable patients with chronic diseases. Most of these trials have been conducted by interdisciplinary teams within health care systems. Thus, the interventions were designed to be practical so, if effective, they could be implemented within the health care systems in which the research was conducted. Outcomes include clinical parameters, health services utilization/costs, and patient-centered measures. Dr. Weinberger also has a long and distinguished history of mentoring students, fellows and junior faculty with diverse backgrounds, as well as developing and offering innovative educational programs to diverse audiences. He is currently the Principal Investigator of UNC’s KL2 Program. Previously, he was co-Director UNC’s Education, Training and Career Development Program; co-Director of the NICHD-sponsored UNC Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Award; Principal Investigator of an AHRQ-sponsored K12 award in Comparative Effectiveness Research; and Co-Director of the UNC’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. For 14 years, he was the Director of the PhD Program in Health Policy and Management. He has received numerous national and University and national awards that recognize his accomplishments as a researcher and mentor including the: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Vision Award for Groundbreaking Research in Chronic Illness Care (2002), Under Secretary's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research from Department of Veterans Affairs (2003), John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award from AHRQ (2005), John E. Larsh, Jr. Award for Mentorship from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (2013), UNC Class of 1996 Award for Advising Excellence (2015), and Award for Teaching Excellence and Innovation, Gillings School of Global Public Health (2017).