Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.
Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
E-mail: director@ahrq.hhs.gov
Phone: (301) 427-1200
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 served as the Agency’s Acting Director and previously was Director of AHRQ’s Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research.
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, Dr. Clancy 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 before joining AHRQ in 1990.
In 2009, Dr. Clancy was chosen as the most powerful physician-executive by the readers of Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician magazines. She was also awarded the 2009 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research. Her major research interests include improving health care quality and patient safety, and reducing disparities in care associated with patients’ race, ethnicity, gender, income, and education. As Director, she launched the first annual reports to the Congress on health care disparities and health care quality.
Dr. Clancy lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C, with her husband, Bill.
