[3] In 1999, he received an Investigator Award in Health Research Policy from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
[5] In 2013, Burns joined the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management as a Faculty Co-director.
[7] Burns is known for having analyzed the bankruptcy of the Allegheny Health Education & Research Foundation, which owned the first medical school ever to go bankrupt.
[8] He has testified to the Federal Trade Commission about clinical integration[9] and served as an expert witness for the Federal Trade Commission in its case against Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Medical Group.
He has served as lead editor of the 6th Edition of the major text, Healthcare Management: Organization Design & Behavior (Delmar, 2011).