 Robert
Brook, M.D., Co-Director of the
UCLA Clinical Scholars Program, has received the
Institute of Medicine's 2005 Gustav O. Lienhard Award
for the advancement for personal health care services
in the United States. The award was presented at the
2005 IOM annual meeting.
The award honors Brook for his dedication and commitment
to improving the effectiveness of health care services
and shaping the discourse on health care policy. He
is the 20th recipient of the Lienhard
Award. Support for the award is provided by the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Gustav O. Lienhard was
chair of the Foundation's board of trustees from the
organization's establishment in 1971 to his retirement
in 1986. Lienhard, who died in 1987, built his career
with Johnson & Johnson, beginning as an accountant
and retiring 39 years later as president.
Brook is Vice President, Corporate Fellow, and Director
of the health program at
RAND Corp., and Professor of Medicine and Public
Health at the Center
for the Health Sciences at the University of California,
Los Angeles. He completed the Clinical Scholars
Program at Johns Hopkins University. A prolific scholar,
he conducted pioneering work in the field of quality
measurement. He operationalized the concept of appropriateness
by establishing the scientific basis for determining
whether various medical and surgical procedures were
being used appropriately. More than any other individual,
he is responsible for focusing policymakers' attention
on quality-of-care issues and their implications for
the nation's health. Most of the quality of care and
health status measures being used today throughout the
developed world were developed by Brook or by research
teams that he led.
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