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Research News
June 23, 2008
Twelve HSR&D Researchers Named Exceptional Reviewers by Medical Care
Twelve VA HSR&D researchers were named Exceptional Reviewers in the June 2008 issue of Medical Care, the official journal of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association.
Medical Care is one of North America's leading outlets for peer-reviewed health services research, and its Exceptional Reviewer designation includes approximately the top 5% of its peer reviewers. Top reviewers were chosen on the basis of quality, timeliness, and number of reviews performed. VA HSR&D researchers included in this honor are:
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David Aron, MD: Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, OH.
- Dan Berlowitz, MD, MPH: HSR&D's Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA.
- Kenneth Boockvar, MD, MS: J.J. Peters VA Medical Center and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
- Laurel A. Copeland, PhD: HSR&D's Veterans Evidence-Based Research Dissemination and Implementation Center and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX.
- Carol E. Fletcher, PhD, RN: HSR&D's Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, Ann Arbor, MI.
- Ann Hendricks, PhD: HSR&D's Health Care Financing and Economics, VA Boston Healthcare System Health and the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- George L. Jackson, PhD, MHA: HSR&D's Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care and the Duke University-Division of General Internal Medicine, Durham, NC.
- Laura E. Jones, PhD: HSR&D's Center of Excellence for Implementing Evidence-based Practice, Indianapolis, IN
- Charles Maynard, PhD: Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development, Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Nancy J. Petersen, PhD: HSR&D's Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies and the Houston VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
- Amy Rosen, PhD: HSR&D's Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research in Bedford, MA and the Boston University School of Public Health.
- Todd H. Wagner, PhD: HSR&D's Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA.
Since 2000, Medical Care has been ranked by the Institute of Scientific Information as either the top, or one of the top five journals in the Health Care Sciences and Services category, which includes more than 50 different peer-reviewed journals.
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