Kerr receives national award in health services research

Dr. Eve A. Kerr, a physician researcher with VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, has received the 2016 Under Secretary's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research. It is the highest honor that VA's Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) bestows.

Kerr is the director of the HSR&D Center for Clinical Management Research at VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System in Michigan and a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan. She has spent her career working to improve quality of care for Veterans by conducting research to develop new performance improvement measures and clinical care guidelines. 

As a steward for performance-improvement measures, Kerr serves as chair for the American College of Physicians' Committee on Performance Measurement. She is also a steering committee member of Choosing Wisely International — an organization devoted to reducing unnecessary clinical tests — and a member of the Health Systems Advisory Panel for the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Her work on new clinical performance measures has been endorsed by VA, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the American Diabetes Association, and the United Kingdom National Health Service.