The Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award recognizes scholars early in their careers as health services researchers who show exceptional promise for future contributions. This award commemorates the dedication of Alice Hersh to supporting the next generation of health services researchers. Ms. Hersh was the founding executive director of the Association for Health Services Research (AHSR).

2008

Ashish Jha, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard Medical School

2007

Kevin Volpp, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

2006

Michelle Mello, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Law
Director of the Program in Law and Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health

2005

Katrina Armstrong, M.D., M.S.C.E.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

2004

David M. Studdert, LL.B., SC.D.
Associate Professor Law and Public Health
School of Public Health
Harvard University

Benjamin G. Druss, M.D., M.P.H.
Rosalynn Carter Chair in Mental Health
and Associate Professor of Public Health & Psychiatry,
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Dana P. Goldman, Ph.D.
Senior Economist
RAND

Susan L. Ettner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Departmentof Medicine and in the Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health

Laurence C. Baker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Research and Policy
Stanford University

Michael Chernew, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Public Health, University of Michigan

Kevin A. Schulman, M.D., M.B.A.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of the Clinical Economics Research Unit, School of Medicine, Georgetown University

John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician in the Division of General Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Barbara G. Vickrey, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

David A. Asch, M.D., M.B.A.
Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Chief of Health Services Research
Philadelphia VA Medical Center

Andrew B. Bindman, M.D.
Division of General Internal Medicine
San Francisco General Hospital
University of California, San Francisco

David J. Ballard, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.P.H.
Director
Center for Clinical Evaluation Sciences
Professor
School of Medicine, School of Public Health, Emory University

Lillian Gelberg, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Division of Family Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Lisa I. Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital

Alan L. Hillman, M.D., M.B.A.
Director
Center for Health Policy, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics,
University of Pennsylvania

Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., J.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Alan M. Garber, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Stanford University
HSR&D Senior Research Associate
Department of Veterans Affairs

Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Nicole Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hennepin County Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Center for Health Services Research, University of Minnesota

James C. Robinson, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Health Economics
University of California, Berkeley

Earl P. Steinberg, M.D., M.P.P.
Director
Program for Medical Technology, Johns Hopkins University

Thomas Rice, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Arnold M. Epstein, M.D., M.A.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard University

Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., M.P.H.
Senior Natural Scientist
The RAND Corporation
Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, Los Angeles