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 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.
 
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 and is currently on the board of the Annals of Family Medicine, American Journal of Medical Quality, and Medical Care Research and Review.  She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was elected a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2004.