NEW YORK, NY, December 18, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Stevens celebrates many years' experience in her professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
A Stanley I. Sheerr professor emeritus in arts and sciences at the University of Pennsylvania since 2002, Dr. Stevens is a medicine and public health historian, author, and artist who has focused much of her career in academia. Beginning her career in 1962 as an academic visitor at the London School of Economics, she later served as a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, visiting lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and DeWitt Wallace distinguished scholar of social medicine and public policy in the department of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. During her years at the University of Pennsylvania, she also served as chairman in the department of history and sociology of science and as a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
Most recently, Dr. Stevens has focused her research on the formal organization of specialization in American medicine today and the public roles and self-regulatory structures of the medical profession. With plans to publish an edited collection of her papers on American and comparative medicine, she has already published numerous articles in her field, as well as six books. Her publications have included topics on the history of medical practice in England, the history of specialization in American medicine, the early implementation of Medicaid, physician migration policy and its implications, and the history of American hospitals. One of her books, "A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding and the Making of the Veterans Bureau," was just released in 2016.
A member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for which she served as chair of history and philosophy of science from 2002 to 2003, and member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Sociological Association, and the American Association for History of Medicine, Dr. Stevens is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She previously served as a public member on the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Pediatrics, and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, and chaired and served as a board member for national policy committees for various topics, including Medicare, for-profit healthcare, and alternative medicine.
After obtaining a BA in English Language at Oxford University, Dr. Stevens became a historian and policy analyst. Selected to complete a management traineeship for the British National Health Service, she completed two years of graduate work in applied social science and management studies at the University of Manchester, where she earned a Diploma in Administration in 1959.
Becoming the youngest administrator of a hospital in London, England, she later relocated to Yale University in the United States to complete both a Master of Public Health in Health Services Administration and Policy in 1963, and a PhD in Epidemiology in 1968. Upon earning these two degrees, she was elected to several academic appointments at the prestigious university as an assistant, associate, and full professor at Yale Medical School in the department of epidemiology and public health and served as a fellow at Yale's Institute for Social and Policy Studies. Thereafter, she worked at Tulane University as chair of the department of health systems management before taking on her first role at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979.
Dr. Stevens has received a multitude of awards in recognition of her work in the history of medicine, history of public health, and health services research. More recently, she received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Association for the History of Medicine, and a Carlson Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the History of Medicine by the Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University. She also received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Hahnemann University in 1988, as well as two honorary Doctor of Science degrees in 1995, one from Rutgers University and one from Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine.
Married to Jack D. Barchas, chair of the department of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr. Stevens has been highlighted in dozens of editions of Who's Who, including Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who's Who of American Women, and Who's Who in America.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to her profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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