Faculty Awards

2023

  • Hummy Song – 2nd Place, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award, 2023
  • Hummy Song – Finalist, INFORMS Health Applications Society Best Student Paper Competition, 2023
  • Hummy SongPoets & Quants Top 50 Undergraduate Professors, 2022
  • Hummy Song – Winner, POMS Early Career Research Accomplishments Award, 2022
  • Hummy Song – 2nd Place, POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Competition, 2022
  • Doug Present – MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2021-2022
  • Doug Present – MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2020-2021
  • Hummy Song – Finalist, Best OM Paper in Management Science Award, 2019
  • Doug Present – MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2018-2019
  • Hummy Song – “Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2018
  • Guy David – Wharton School Teaching Excellence Award, 2018
  • Guy David – Wharton School Excellence-in-Teaching Award for the Undergraduate Division, 2018
  • Hummy Song – 1st Place, M&SOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award, 2018
  • Guy David – Wharton School Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award for the MBA Division, 2017
  • Kevin Volpp – Article-of-the-Year Award, “Effect of Financial Incentives on Physicians, Patients, or Both on Lipid Levels”, Academy Heath Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2016 Description

  • Doug Present – MBA: Excellence in Teaching Award, 2014-2015
  • Hummy Song – Joan P. Curhan Citizenship Award, 2015
  • Hummy Song – 2nd Place, AOM Annual Meeting Health Care Management Division Best Paper Award, 2015
  • Hummy Song – Finalist, POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Competition, 2015
  • Hummy Song – Honorable Mention, INFORMS Behavioral Operations Management Section Best Working Paper Award, 2015
  • Hummy Song – Finalist, MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2015
  • Hummy Song – 1st Place, INFORMS Health Applications Society Best Student Paper Competition, 2015
  • Hummy Song – 1st Place, AcademyHealth Organizational Behavior and Management Division Best Abstract Award, 2014
  • Guy David – Wharton School Excellence-in-Teaching Award for the Undergraduate Division, 2014
  • Doug Present – MBA: Excellence in Teaching Award, 2013-2014
  • Hummy Song – Harvard University Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2014
  • Jeffrey H. Silber – Nancy Abramson Wolfson Endowed Chair of Health Services Research, 2013
  • Doug Present – MBA: Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012-2013
  • Hummy Song – Harvard University Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2013
  • John C. Hershey – Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton Undergraduate Division, 2012-2013
  • Kevin Volpp – Philadelphia Business Journal Innovation Award, 2012
  • Kevin Volpp – Elected to Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (IOM), 2012
  • Kevin Volpp – Elected to Association of American Physicians (AAP), 2012
  • Mark V. Pauly – Victor R, Fuchs Lifetime Achievement Award from ASHEcon, 2012
  • John Whitman – MBA: Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011-2012
  • Doug Present – MBA: Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011-2012
  • Mark V. Pauly – University of Pennsylvania Provost’s Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring, 2011-2012
  • Mark V. Pauly – William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research from the Baxter International Foundation and the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, 2012
  • Mark V. Pauly – President of the American Society of Health Economics, 2012
  • Patricia M. Danzon – Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award, 2012
  • Jeffrey H. Silber – AcademyHealth Article-of-the-Year, 2011
  • Hummy Song – Harvard University Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2010
  • Kevin Volpp – Society of General Internal Medicine Outstanding Research Paper of the Year for Volpp KG, Troxel AB, Pauly MV, et al. New England Journal of Medicine; 2009; 360:699-709, 2010
  • Kevin Volpp – British Medical Journal Group Awards for “Translating Research into Practice” for work on Financial Incentives and Smoking Cessation implemented by General Electric nationally for 152,000 employees January, 2010
  • John C. Hershey – Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton Undergraduate Division, 2010
  • Kevin Volpp – Time Magazine Most Significant Advances in Health 2009 A-Z. Work descibed under “I” for “Incentives”, 2009
  • Hummy Song – Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis, 2008
  • Kevin Volpp – Elected to American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), 2008
  • Jeffrey H. Silber – AcademyHealth Abstract-of-the-Year, 2007
  • Kevin Volpp – Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award, AcademyHealth, for “exceptional promise for future contributions to health services research”, 2007
  • Kevin Volpp – Best Paper Award – AcademyHealth Annual R esearch Meeting (with A Rosen, P Romano, P Rosenbaum, J Silber) – “Impact of ACGME Duty Hours on Mortality Among Patients in VA Hospitals” – one of three highest rated abstracts our of about 1700 submitted., 2007
  • Mark V. Pauly – National Institute of Health Care Management Foundation’s Research Award (with M. Kate Bundorf) for “Is Health Insurance Affordable for the Uninsured?” (Journal of Health Economics 2006), 2007
  • Mark V. Pauly – Distinguished Investigator Award from AcademyHealth, 2007
  • Mark V. Pauly – John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, 2007
  • John C. Hershey – Named one of top 50 management science professors (in 225 American Business Schools), 2007
  • Kevin Volpp – John Thompson Award from Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) for outstanding accomplishments in health services research as a junior investigator, 2006
  • Kevin Volpp – Society of General Internal Medicine Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, 2006
  • Mark V. Pauly – Spencer Kimball Article Award (with Howard Kunreuther) from the Journal of Insurance Regulation for, 2006
  • Kevin Volpp – Presidential Award for Early Career Scientistis and Engineers (PECASE) – recognized at White House by President Bush with highest honor given by US government for early career scientists, 2005
  • John C. Hershey – Named a “Favorite Course” by MBA Program for Executives, 2005
  • John C. Hershey – Core Teaching Award for MBA Program for Executives, 2004
  • Jeffrey H. Silber – AcademyHealth (formerly Association for Health Services Research) Article-of-the-Year, 2003
  • Jeffrey H. Silber – The Hummeler Research Prize (Article-of-the-Year), Joseph Stokes, Jr. Research Institute, 2003
  • John C. Hershey – Distinguished Lifetime Service Award, Society for Medical Decision Making, 2003
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 2001
  • Jeffrey H. Silber – Samuel P. Martin Health Services Research Award, 2000
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 2000
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1999
  • John C. Hershey – Telecon Award for Best Continuing Education Program, awarded for Wharton’s Program in Building a Business Case, 1999
  • John C. Hershey – Best Paper Award, Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1999
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1998
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1988
  • Jeffrey H. Silber – Ethel Brown Foerderer Fund for Excellence Award, 1997
  • Patricia M. Danzon – American Risk and Insurance Association, Award for Outstanding Article, for “Alternative Liability Regimes for Medical Injuries: Evidence from Simulation Analysis,” August, 1995
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, 1992
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1991
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Awrd, The Wharton School, 1990
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1990
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1989
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1989
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Class of 1984 Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1988
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1988
  • Patricia M. Danzon – American Risk and Insurance Association, Elizur Wright Award, for Medical Malpractice: Theory, Evidence and Public Policy, June, 1987
  • Patricia M. Danzon – American Association of Risk and Insurance, Award for Outstanding Article, for “Compensation for Occupational Disease: Evaluating the Options,” Journal of Risk and Insurance, June, 1987
  • John C. Hershey – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award for Teaching Excellence, The Wharton School, 1987
  • John C. Hershey – Award winner, “Society for Management Information Systems” Awards Paper Competition, 1973
  • Kevin Volpp – Matilda White Riley Award For Contributions to Social and Behavioral Science, 20th anniversary of the Office of Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, NIH, 1970
  • Kevin Volpp – Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) Distinguished Investigator Award for Translation from Clinical Use into Public Benefit and Policy. “Award for Career Achievement and Contribution to Clinical and Translational Science”, 1970
  • Kevin Volpp – World Economic Forum – chosen to serve on Global Advisory Council on Behavior, 1970