Professor Wins AHRQ Mentorship Award.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has named James Burgess the 2015 winner of the John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award.

The AHRQ, an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services, presents the annual award to an outstanding faculty member in an AHRQ-supported National Research and Service Award (NRSA) institutional training program.

Burgess, a professor of health policy and management who directs the Health Economics Program at SPH, was presented with the award at the 2015 NRSA Trainees Research Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 13, 2015.

According to the AHRQ, faculty members nominated for the award should demonstrate a variety of characteristics that include: a long-term commitment to mentorship; sponsoring students in the academic or professional communities; nurturing talent and advocating for students; and a belief in the value of the study of health services research, health policy, or primary care research.

Burgess is a health economist with more than 25 years of extensive health care management, research, and educational experience putting health services research into practice in diverse transdisciplinary settings. He is a founding co-editor of the electronic Health Economics Letters, the first fully electronic peer-reviewed journal in health economics, and as an associate editor of its parent journal, Health Economics.

He also serves as a senior associate editor of Health Services Research, one of the journals of AcademyHealth, where he is the vice chair of the Methods Council and a member of the Education Council, and chairs its Health Services Research Learning Consortium. He also is treasurer for the International Health Economics Association and is chairing the effort to bring the World Congress of Health Economists to Boston University in July 2017.