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Research Highlights
Seattle Researcher Honored with Under Secretary’s Award
Taken from the Veterans Health Administration Highlights dated March 8, 2002
Stephan D. Fihn, M.D., M.P.H., a Seattle-based physician-researcher whose work has contributed to improvements in healthcare delivery throughout VA, received the 2002 Under Secretary’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research. The award was presented by Dr. Frances Murphy, VA’s Acting Under Secretary for Health, at the annual meeting in February of VA health services researchers.
Dr. Fihn directs VA’s Northwest Center for Outcomes Research in Older Adults, where investigators study ways to improve the diagnosis and management of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and depression.
Among the projects he is currently leading is the Ambulatory Care Quality Improvement Project (ACQUIP), a major national study that is collecting data on the health status and utilization of care for 80,000 veterans with multiple chronic diseases. In other studies, working through VA’s groundbreaking Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), Dr. Fihn and colleagues have developed new guidelines for the diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with chronic stable angina.
Dr. Fihn has played a major role in training more than 140 physicians and scientists to conduct health services research, and provided critical guidance to VA decision-makers on issues of health care delivery.
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