For Release: May 3, 2002
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Leader in Consumer-Centered Health Care Honored by FACCT

Hanover, NH - John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH, was honored for his outstanding efforts to foster a publicly accountable health care system with a 2002 Ellwood Award by FACCT (Foundation for Accountability). This Individual Award for Lifetime Contributions is presented to those who have devoted their career in health care to improving quality.

Wennberg, is the director of the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences and a professor of medicine and of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School where he holds the Peggy Y. Thomson chair. His early work on variation in health care revealed large differences in allocation of hospital resources, physician supply, and the use of high-risk procedures and culminated in the production of the Dartmouth Atlas, the most comprehensive report on variations in health services throughout the United States. He has continued to conduct research, bringing to light questions never posed to the health care system. Wennberg is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science and the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. He has received a number of awards, including the Association for Health Services Research's Distinguished Investigator Award, the Baxter Foundation's Health Services Research Prize and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award in Clinical Medicine.

The award honors work that continues the legacy of Paul M. Ellwood Jr., MD, a national leader in making the health system accountable to consumers for delivering high-quality care. Ellwood helped guide the development of FACCT, a Portland, Oregon based organization dedicated to helping Americans make better health care decisions.

"This year's Ellwood Award winners demonstrate the leadership, vision and action that are moving the health care system toward overall accountability and improvement. Each of the winners is giving consumers tools to help shape the system themselves," said David Lansky, PhD, president of FACCT.

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