The Distinguished Investigator Award recognizes individuals who have made a significant and long-lasting contribution to the field of health services research. The distinguished investigators are leaders and role models for the field.

2008

David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P.
Director, Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System

2007

Mark V. Pauly, Ph.D.
Bendheim Professor
Department of Health Care Systems
Wharton School

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
University of California, Los Angeles, NPI Health Services Research Center

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 at the School of Public Health, UC, 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

* title and affiliation listed at time of award