Carolyn M. Clancy MD

Dr. Clancy is the Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Discovery, Education, and Affiliate Networks. Prior to her current position, she served as the VHA Executive in Charge. Dr. Clancy also served as the Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Organizational Excellence overseeing VHA’s performance, quality, safety, risk management, systems engineering, auditing, oversight, ethics, and accreditation programs, and ten years as the Director of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In 2015, Dr. Clancy was selected as the Outstanding Federal Executive of the Year by Disabled American Veterans.

Dr. Clancy, a general internist and health services researcher, is a graduate of Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She holds an academic appointment at George Washington University School of Medicine and serves as Senior Associate Editor, Health Services Research. Dr. Clancy has contributed to eight academic textbooks and authored, co-authored, and provided invited commentary in more than 225 scholarly journal articles. She served as a member of the National Quality Forum, Board of Directors, as the Chair of the AQA Alliance, and served on the Board of Governors, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Clancy was most recently presented with the 2014 Quality Champion Award, National Committee for Quality Assurance, and was also named an Honorary Fellow, American Academy of Nursing.