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2011 Winners of the HERO Employee Health Management Awards
The HERO Employee Health Management (EHM) Awards honor dedication and commitment to the field of Employee Health Management, and acknowledge out-standing achievements in the practice of EHM in the areas of Leadership and Research.  HERO congratulates the 2011 Honorees:
The Bill Whitmer Leadership Award   The Mark Dundon Research Award
Michael O'Donnell

Michael P. O'Donnell, PhD, MPH, MBA
 

Ron Goetzel, PhD
Michael P. O’Donnell, PhD, MPH, MBA is Founder, President and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Health Promotion. He has helped more than 100 employers, health care organizations, government agencies, foundations, and health promotion providers develop new health promotion programs and refine existing programs.  He has served in leadership roles in four major health systems. He is also Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Health Promotion Advocates, a non-profit policy group created to integrate health promotion strategies into national policy. They were successful in developing six provisions that passed as part of health care reform.  Michael has co-authored 7 books and workbooks, including Health Promotion in the Workplace, which has been in continuous publication for 25 years, he was  a Senior Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor in Seoul Korea, and has an ongoing interest in stimulating global health promotion efforts.    Ron Goetzel, PhD is Director of the Emory University Institute for Health and Productivity Studies (IHPS) and Vice President of Consulting and Applied Research for Thomson Reuters.  Ron is responsible for leading research projects and consulting services focusing on the relationship between health and well-being, and work related productivity.  He is nationally recognized and widely published in the areas of return-on-investment (ROI), data analysis, program evaluation, outcomes research, and health and productivity measurement.  Ron has served as Principal Investigator for projects supported by Medicare, NHLBI, and CDC, as well as dozens of business organizations, including HERO. Before joining Thomson Reuters in 1995, he was with Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems. He has doctoral and M.A. degrees in applied social psychology from New York University.
     

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