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Cecil G. Sheps  

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  • Cecil G. Sheps (1913–2004), one of the founders of the field now known as health services research, was the Taylor Grandy Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), the university's former Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, and founding director of UNC-CH's Health Services Research Center (renamed in 1991 as the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research), where he maintained an active presence until his death in 2004. Sheps spent two different periods of his long career as a member of the UNC-CH faculty. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Services Research; Sheps, Cecil G.]

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