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September 08, 2010

Pilot Program

Health IT and How it Impacts the Quality of Health Care in America
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Meet the Panel

Carolyn Clancy, M.D.
Director
AHRQ
Full Bio
Alan G. Merten, Ph.D.
President
George Mason University
Full Bio
Alison Rein
Former Assistant Director Food and Health Policy
National Consumers League
Full Bio
Gregory Bentz, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Medical Officer
INOVA Loudon Hospital
Full Bio
Theresa M. Davis, R.N., M.S.N.
Operations Director/Patient Care Director eICU
INOVA Health System
Full Bio
Gregg Meyer, M.D., M.Sc.
Senior VP for Quality and Patient Safety
Massachusetts General Hospital
Full Bio
Robert M. Kolodner, M.D.
National Coordinator
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Full Bio
Dave deBronkart
PatientSite System User
Patient at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Full Bio
Steven E. Wojcik
Vice President, Public Policy
National Business Group on Health
Full Bio
Deven McGraw
Chief Operating Officer
National Partnership for Women & Families
Full Bio
Geoffrey Brown, Ph.D.
Sr. VP/Chief Information Officer IT
INOVA Health System
Full Bio
Carolyn Clancy, M.D.
Director
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Department of Health and Human Services

Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. was appointed Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on February 5, 2003. Prior to her appointment, Dr. Clancy had served as AHRQ’s Acting Director since March 2002 and previously was Director of the Agency’s Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research (COER).

Dr. Clancy, who is a general internist and health services researcher, is a graduate of Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Following clinical training in internal medicine, she was a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She was also an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond before joining AHRQ in 1990.

Dr. Clancy holds an academic appointment at George Washington University School of Medicine (Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine) and serves as Senior Associate Editor, Health Services Research. Dr. Clancy has served on multiple editorial boards (currently Annals of Family Medicine, American Journal of Medical Quality, and Medical Care Research and Review). She has published widely in peer reviewed journals and has edited or contributed to seven books. A member of the Institute of Medicine, Dr. Clancy was elected a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2004.

Her major research interests include various dimensions of health care quality and patient, including women’s health, primary care, access to care services, and the impact of financial incentives on physicians’ decisions.

Dr. Clancy lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C, with her husband, Bill. She enjoys jogging, movies, and spending time with her extended family, especially four nieces in Virginia.

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