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Timothy J. Wilt, M.D.,
M.P.H., is the recipient
of the 2014 Under
Secretary's Award for
Outstanding Achievement
in Health Services
Research, the highest
honor for a VA health services researcher.
Dr. Wilt has made significant contributions
to VA health care through his research, particularly
in his efforts to synthesize evidence
in order to provide clarity on issues of importance
to Veterans' health. Dr. Wilt's Prostate
Cancer Intervention Versus Observation Trial
(PIVOT), with results published in The New
England Journal of Medicine, demonstrated
the lack of benefit and increased harms associated
with radical prostatectomy in localized prostate cancer compared to observation,
thus having immediate implications for the
10,000 Veterans diagnosed with prostate
cancer in VA each year. These findings were
incorporated into practice guidelines issued
by VA and the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force, the American College of Physicians,
the American Society of Clinical Oncology,
and the American and European Urological
Associations.
Dr. Wilt is a Professor of Medicine and
staff physician at the Minneapolis VA
Health Care System and University of
Minnesota Medical School; he is also a
core investigator with HSR&D's Center for
Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, also
located in Minneapolis.
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