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CHERP Investigator Rachel Werner Receives National Award, 07/01/2009
Contact: Carson Clark
CHERP Investigator and PVAMC Staff Physician Rachel Werner Receives Prestigious National Award for Research
Rachel Werner, MD, PhD, a Core Investigator at the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) and staff physician at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center (PVAMC), received the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting on June 28, 2009. This prestigious award recognizes scholars early in their careers as health services researchers who show exceptional promise for future contributions.
An Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Dr. Werner is also a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Her research focuses on how quality improvement initiatives, such as pay for performance and public reporting, change health care delivery, health care organization and finances, racial disparities, and overall quality of care. Her work was among the first to recognize that public reporting of quality information may worsen racial disparities.
Dr. Werner’s work has been recognized through numerous awards including the Dissertation Award from AcademyHealth, the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, and Article of the Year Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine for her JAMA article on the relationship between measured performance and mortality rates in hospitals. Dr. Werner is currently principal investigator of an R-01 from the AHRQ examining the mechanisms by which public reporting in nursing homes impacts quality of care. She is also the recipient of numerous other externally funded grants, including a Pharmaceutical Roundtable Award from the American Heart Association; a Williams Scholar Award in Geriatrics; and a VA Career Development Award.
Past recipients of the Alice Hersh New Investigators include three of Dr. Werner’s colleagues: David Asch, MD, MBA, Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, and Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD.
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