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Marilyn Schapira Honored with Perelman School of Medicine Award
Recipient of 2024 Samuel Martin Health Evaluation Sciences Research Award
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Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) Marilyn M. Schapira, MD, MPH, is the recipient of the 2024 Perelman School of Medicine’s Samuel Martin Health Evaluation Sciences Research Award.
The Martin Award was established in 1996 to honor Samuel P. Martin, III, MD, Executive Director of LDI and Chair of the Health Care Systems Unit of the Wharton School where he championed innovative programs and careers for students in the health, management, and social sciences field. It is annually granted to a faculty member for a body of work with an emphasis on health services research and achievement in the health evaluation sciences, including bioethics, biostatistics, epidemiology, and related fields.
A Professor of General Internal Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, Schapira’s research has focused on risk communication and medical decision making, adoption of evidence-based medicine, and the communication of scientific evidence.
She has content and methods expertise in the areas of health literacy, health numeracy, patient-provider communication, and value and preference assessment. Through her development of a validated measure of health numeracy and decision aids designed for use in the clinical setting, she has made substantial contributions to both health services research and the improvement of evidence-based and patient-centered care.
Previous winners of the award are:
1996 – J. Sanford Schwartz, MD
1997 – Alan Hillman, MD, MBA
1998 – Sankey Williams, MD
1999 – David Asch, MD, MBA
2000 – Jeffrey Silber, MD, PhD
2001 – Brian Strom, MD, MPH
2002 – Margaret Stineman, MD
2003 – Flaura Koplin Winston, MD, PhD
2004 – Harold I. Feldman, MD, MSCE
2005 – Daniel Polsky, PhD
2006 – Katrina Armstrong, MD
2007 – Dennis Durbin, MD, MSCE
2008 – Thomas R. Ten Have, PhD
2009 – Joshua P. Metlay, MD, PhD
2010 – Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD
2011 – Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH
2012 – David J. Margolis, MD, MSCE
2013 – Sean Hennessy, PharmD, PhD
2014 – Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD
2015 – Andrea B. Troxel, ScD
2016 – Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD, MBE
2017 – Jalpa A. Doshi, PhD
2018 – David S. Mandell, ScD
2019 – Rebecca A. Hubbard, PhD
2020 – Peter P. Reese, MD, MSCE
2021 – Raina M. Merchant, MD, MSHP, FAHA
2022 – Rachel Kelz, MD, MSCE
2023 – Alexander G. Fiks, MD, MSCE
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