Carolyn Clancy

Carolyn Clancy, M.D., is the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) since February 5, 2003. Dr. Clancy 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’s major research interests include various dimensions of health care quality, including women’s health, primary care, access to care services, and the impact of financial incentives on physicians' decisions.

Following clinical training in internal medicine, Dr. Clancy was a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining AHRQ in 1990, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond.

Dr. Clancy holds an academic appointment at the George Washington University School of Medicine and serves as a senior associate editor for Health Services Research. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was elected a master of the American College of Physicians in 2004.

Peter Littlejohns

Peter Littlejohns is the clinical and public health director of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, an independent organization responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of wellbeing and the prevention and treatment of ill health in the United Kingdom.

Littlejohns has contributed to the establishment of all the guidance development programs and currently has lead responsibility for research and development. His primary interests center on improving the cost-effectiveness of health care. Littlejohns has published nearly 200 articles, chapters and books on a range of subjects related to health care evaluation.

He is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Littlejohns was a founding member and trustee of the AGREE Research Trust. In 1995, he was awarded a professorial chair in public health by the University of London. In 1998, Littlejohns spent a year in South Africa undertaking research funded by the Health Systems Research Trust.

J. Michael McGinnis

J. Michael McGinnis is a senior scholar at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the executive director of the IOM Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine. He is a long-time contributor to national and international health policy leadership.

McGinnis was previously the senior vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). He was also responsible for coordinating activities and policies in disease prevention and health promotion for the Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton Administrations.

McGinnis played a pivotal role for initiatives such as the Healthy People process, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Ten Essential Services of Public Health, the RWJF Health and Society Scholars Program, the RWJF Young Epidemiology Scholars Program, and the RWJF Active Living family of programs.

Internationally, McGinnis chaired the World Bank/European Commission Task Force on post-war reconstruction of the health sector in Bosnia, and worked both as field epidemiologist and state coordinator for the World Health Organization’s successful smallpox eradication program in India.