Weinberger and Weiner receive UNC Sheps Center’s Distinguished Investigator Awards

Dr. Bryan Weiner

Dr. Morris Weinberger

Morris Weinberger, PhD, Vergil N. Slee Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Quality Management, and Professor Bryan Weiner, PhD, both in UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management, have received Distinguished Investigator Awards from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.

Weinberger also is senior research career scientist at the Sheps Center and at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and is director of the doctoral training program in health policy and management at UNC. Weiner is director of the Program on Healthcare Organization at the Sheps Center and co-director of the health policy and management department’s Cancer Care Quality Training Program.

Weinberger and Weiner, selected for outstanding research accomplishments in the field of health services research, are well known for their work as professor, mentor, board member, adviser, researcher, review committee chair, grant reviewer, guest lecturer and publisher. Weinberger has been a member of the UNC faculty for nine years and Weiner for 11 years.

“It’s truly an honor to be recognized in this way,” Weinberger said. “The Sheps Center has had a long and distinguished history of conducting policy-relevant health services research that has made a difference in North Carolina and throughout the nation. I am flattered to be in the company of the truly distinguished investigators who are previous recipients of this award.”

The Cecil G. Sheps Center’s Distinguished Investigator Award was established in 1988 and is presented every five to seven years. Both awardees were presented with a plaque at the Sheps Center’s 42nd anniversary celebration on Oct. 6.