Organization Chart

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Office of the Director

Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., Director
Boyce Ginieczki, Ph.D., Acting Deputy Director
Jeffrey Toven, AHRQ Chief Operating Officer

• Office of Extramural Research, Education and Priority Populations
  Francis D. Chesley, Jr., M.D., Director
  Directs the scientific review process for grants and contracts, manages Agency research training programs, evaluates the scientific contribution of proposed and ongoing research and demonstrations; and supports and conducts heath services research on priority populations.

  • Women's Health.
  • Minority Health.

• Office of Communications and Knowledge Transfer
  Howard E. Holland, Director
  Designs, develops, implements, and manages programs for disseminating the results of Agency activities with the goal of changing audience behavior.

• Office of Performance Accountability, Resources, and Technology
  Jeffrey Toven, Director
  Directs and coordinates Agency-wide program planning and evaluation activities and administrative operations.

• Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets
  Irene Fraser, Ph.D., Director
  Provides a locus of leadership and expertise for advances in health care delivery, organization, and markets through research.

• Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends
  Steven B. Cohen, Ph.D., Director
  Conducts, supports, and manages studies of the cost and financing of health care, the access to health care services and related trends. CFACT also develops data sets to support policy and behavioral research and analyses.

• Center for Outcomes and Evidence
  Jean R. Slutsky, P.A., M.S.P.H., Director
  Conducts and supports research and assessment of health care practices, technologies, processes, and systems.

• Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical Partnerships
  David Meyers, M.D., Director
  Expands the knowledge base for clinical providers and patients and to assure the translation of new knowledge and systems improvement into primary care practice.

• Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
  William B. Munier, M.D., Director
  Works to improve the quality and safety of our health care system through research and implementation of evidence.

AHRQ Publication No. 11-M025
Replaces AHRQ Publication No. 10-M048
Current as of May 2011

Internet Citation:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Organization Chart. AHRQ Publication No. 11-M025, May 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/about/orgchart.htm