Carolyn M. Clancy, MD | Markle
Carolyn M. Clancy, MD | Markle

Carolyn M. Clancy, MD

Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Member, Markle Connecting for Health Steering Group

Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, was appointed Director of AHRQ on February 5, 2003, and reappointed on October 9, 2009. Prior to her appointment, Clancy was Director of AHRQ’s Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research.

Clancy, 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, Clancy was a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining AHRQ in 1990, she was also an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia.

Clancy holds an academic appointment at the George Washington University School of Medicine (Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine) and serves as Senior Associate Editor for the journal Health Services Research. She serves on multiple editorial boards, including Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of Family Medicine, American Journal of Medical Quality, and Medical Care Research and Review.
Clancy is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was elected a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2004. In 2009, she was awarded the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research.

Clancy’s 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 of AHRQ, she launched the first annual report to Congress on health care disparities and health care quality.

As a government employee, Clancy collaborates with Markle but does not endorse documents.