JHSPH Welcomed AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting (ARM) to Baltimore
Under the helm of Darrell Gaskin, PhD, this year’s ARM Planning Committee Chair, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was featured prominently at this year’s 30th anniversary ARM meeting held recently at the Baltimore Convention Center. The meeting marked the largest ever in AcademyHealth’s history, with over 2600 attendees.
Sessions featured our faculty as panel chairs and presenters, and our students. Highlights included an HPM-sponsored meet the expert’s breakfast; a video documenting the growth and impact of health services research, co-produced by AcademyHealth and the Department of Health Policy and Management; a 5.5’ timeline display depicting milestones of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research from 1969 to the present; a lively and well attended HPM Alumni Reception held at the waterfront Renaissance Hotel; and the Recognition Plenary, where Donald Steinwachs, PhD, Professor, HPM, received AcademyHealth’s Distinguished Investigator Award.
The Distinguished Investigator award recognizes individuals who have made a significant and long-lasting contribution to the field of health services research. Distinguished investigators are leaders and role models for the field of health services research. During his many years at JHSPH Don has been a teacher, guide and mentor for students and young faculty alike while pursuing a well-regarded research career. He was instrumental in the creation of AcademyHealth and its success as an influential voice for health services research and health policy. The award was presented by Karen Davis, PhD, Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor and Director of the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, and a former recipient of the award.
