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Research Highlights
Durham Investigator Wins VA’s Top Health Services Research Award
Taken from the Veterans Health Administration Highlights dated February 24, 2003
Dr. Morris Weinberger, researcher at Durham VAMC received VA’s 2003 Under Secretary’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research, which is VA’s highest honor for investigators in research. He is noted for conducting numerous studies aimed at improving care for chronic health conditions, especially those prevalent among veterans and older adults, such as arthritis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, back pain and depression.
Dr. Weinberger was the lead investigator on a clinical trial reported in the October 2002 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), which assessed the benefits of special pharmacy care on patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In 2001, he was senior author on a study published in JAMA that compared the effectiveness of three widely used antidepressants.
In addition to his VA honor, he was also the 2002 recipient of the prestigious Vision Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program on Improving Chronic Illness Care.
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