NCMIC Foundation Announces McAndrews’ Award Recipient
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The NCMIC Foundation has announced that William B. Weeks, MD, PhD, MBA is the 2016 recipient of the Jerome F. McAndrews, DC, Memorial Research Fund Award. The presentation of the award was made on March 18, 2016, at the Association of Chiropractic Colleges Educational Conference and Research Agenda Conference (ACC-RAC).
With more than 20 years of experience in health services and health policy research, Dr. Weeks was selected as the recipient of this award for bringing a much-needed expert viewpoint to research on policy and chiropractic care. His research has focused on measuring healthcare quality, costs, and value.
As chiropractic becomes more integrated into the mainstream healthcare system, decision makers will want to know if inclusion of chiropractic services will result in better outcomes and more value creation. Dr. Weeks is a Professor of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, where he works at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice as a senior research scientist. Dr. Weeks also serves as the Chair of the Clinical and Health Services Research Program at the Center for Chiropractic Research at Palmer College of Chiropractic. Dr. Weeks has published over 150 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals and has collaborated with a variety of researchers in his work. The results of his research can be applied to day-to-day healthcare prac-
tice and includes studies that inform healthcare policy and future research across the nation. Dr. Weeks is honored to be the 2015-2016 Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair at Aix-Marseille University where he is studying geographic variation in health services utilization in France.
The Jerome F. McAndrews, DC, Memorial Research Fund was created by the NCMIC Foundation to honor Dr. McAndrews’ longtime support of the scientific and practical advancement of the study of chiropractic. It provides an award each year to a worthy research recipient. This award recognizes an individual or group who has demonstrated exceptional ability to:
1. Advance research and the exchange of scientific information
2. Promote high ethical standards in research and/ or practice
3. Contribute to practical applications to chiropractic practice
4. Interact professionally with other individuals and groups involved in relevant research and application
Past recipients of this award are: North Carolina Employee Health Plan Research Study Group (2015), Robert Mootz, DC (2014), James Whedon, DC, MS (2013), Pierre Côté, DC, PhD (2011), Deborah Kopansky-Giles, DC (2010), Sidney Rubinstein, DC, PhD (2009) and Simon Dagenais, DC, PhD (2008). For more information about the Foundation, please email [email protected]. Or, go to www.ncmicfoundation.org to make a contribution.
