Honor/Award
In October 2012, Kevin Volpp was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine, one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedicine. Volpp’s research on the impact of financial and organizational incentives on health behavior and health outcomes has been recognized by numerous awards, including including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers; the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth; Time Magazine’s 2009 “Advances in Health” list; and the British Medical Journal Group Award for translating Research into Practice.