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Volume 19, Number 2 • April 2006
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CAROLYN MAUREEN CLANCY, MD: a conversation with the editor

Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, and William C. Roberts, MD

Carolyn Maureen Clancy, MD, was appointed director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on February 5, 2003. Prior to her appointment, she had served as AHRQ's acting director since March 2002 and previously was director of the agency'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 in Richmond before joining AHRQ in 1990. Dr. Clancy is a clinical associate professor (Department of Medicine) at the George Washington University School of Medicine and serves as a senior associate editor of Health Services Research. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and has edited or contributed to 7 books. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was elected a master of the American College of Physicians in 2004. Her major research interests include various dimensions of health care quality and primary care, access to care services, and the impact of financial incentives on physicians' decisions. Dr. Clancy lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, with her husband, Bill. She enjoys jogging, watching movies, and spending time with her extended family.