The Professional Life of Dr. William B. Weeks, Part 1

Dr. William B. Weeks is a certified mental health and addiction physician. He currently works at Pinewood Medical Associates in Plymouth, New Hampshire. As a clinical care physician there, he provides buprenorphine induction and patient treatment management. He has held this position since 2014. He is also an employee of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, located in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Dr. Weeks holds several positions, but he is first and foremost a professor and senior research scientist. In this role, Dr. Weeks authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles. His articles appeared in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, LAMA, BMJ, Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, JGIM, Medical Care, HSR, Social Science and Medicine, and Health Policy. As a researcher, Dr. Weeks writes research proposals, obtains grant funding for the proposals, conducts original research, and publishes his findings.

The Fulbright Commission funded Dr. Weeks’ study of geographic variation in France while he was at the Institut d’Études Avancées Exploratoire Méditerranéen de l’Interdisciplinarité.

The National Institutes of Health-funded Dr. Weeks’ study of the association between chiropractic care, costs, and outcomes of multiple-comorbid Medicare beneficiaries with a back-pain episode.

Dr. Weeks conducted a study to examine variations in care quantity, reduce health care costs through better understanding, and increase the value of care in 15 US health care systems. A considerable amount of this work focused on bundled payments. Dr. Weeks conducted this study for the High-Value Healthcare Collaborative. CMMI and members funded the effort.

The national Chiropractic Medical Insurance Corporation funded Dr. William b Weeks to conduct a re-analysis of the Medicare Chiropractic Services Demonstration Project.

Bill Weeks of Lyme, New Hampshire’s Dynamic Career Part 6

Bill Weeks of Lyme, New Hampshire has a compelling record of pursuing and achieving excellence continuously throughout his successful career. He has successfully established himself as a professor, scholar, healthcare expert, and board-certified psychiatrist. Take a look at the sixth and final assemblage of his professional roles and dynamic contributions.

Throughout the years 1992 to 2008, Dr Bill Weeks Lyme was employed at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in White River Junction, Vermont. He excelled in various posts, including the organization's Senior Researcher and Mentor. While upholding this position, he executed all of the tasks and achievements listed below.

• Bill Weeks wrote the proposal to organize the National VA Quality Scholars Fellowship and the National VA Patient Safety Fellowship Program, held the position of Senior Scholar, and acted as a mentor for over 30 fellows. 

• Bill Weeks acquired grant funding worth more than $20 million to conduct research on veterans, the VA, and the private healthcare sector, to establish the field of veterans’ rural health research and to create the VA Outcomes research center grant REAP.

As an internal consultant at the VA Bill Weeks founded the Office of Quality Management Officer for 11 VA hospitals in New England. He victoriously directed the organization through the VA’s primary JCAHO network accreditation. Bill Weeks was also the director of field office for the VA’s National Center for Patient Safety and VA’s Patient Safety Centers of Inquiry.

While serving as a clinician at the VA Bill Weeks established and improved the Outpatient PTSD Clinical Team and the Inpatient Evaluation and Brief Treatment PTSD Unit