Don was interviewed by Juned Siddique, Ph.D., in the journal “Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology” in honor of his receiving the Long-term Excellence Award from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.

The Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association presented Don with the 2015 Long-Term Excellence Award for outstanding contributions to the development of statistical methods and innovative statistical applications to health care policy and health services research, for increasing the awareness of health policy statistics in the statistical community, and for significant mentoring and service that advances the aims of the Health Policy Statistics Section.

The award was presented at the 11th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics that occurred from October 7-9, 2015 in Providence RI.