National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality
The National Advisory Council (NAC) for Healthcare Research and Quality provides advice and recommendations to AHRQ's director and to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on priorities for a national health services research agenda.
Overview | Meetings | Members | NAC Coordinators
Overview
The 21-member panel is comprised of private-sector experts who contribute a varied perspective on the health care system and the most important questions that AHRQ's research should address in order to promote improvements in the quality, outcomes, and cost-effectiveness of clinical practice. The private-sector members represent health care plans, providers, purchasers, consumers, and researchers.
Also serving in an ex-officio capacity are principal representatives of seven Federal agencies that address health care system issues: The National Institutes of Health (NIH); the Department of Defense (Health Affairs) (DoD); the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); the Office of Personnel Management (OPM); the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS, formerly the Health Care Financing Administration [HCFA]); and the Assistant Secretary for Health.
Private-sector members are appointed by the Secretary, HHS, to serve 3-year terms. A list of current members follows. Biographies are available by selecting the member's name.
For more details about the Council, please visit the Council Charter Documents.
Select for information on the AHRQ Subcommittee of the National Advisory Council on Healthcare Quality Measurement (SNAC).
Select for information on the Subcommittee of the National Advisory Council on Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund Investments and Future Activities.
Meetings
Council meetings are open to the public. Please check the Federal Register Notice of Public Meeting to confirm meeting times and location.
Review meeting minutes from 2015 to the present.
Members

Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer
Moffitt Cancer Center
12902 Magnolia Drive
Tampa, FL 33612
Phone: (813) 745-8870
Email: edmondo.robinson@moffitt.org

Senior Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives
Perelman School of Medicine
John Morgan Professor
Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Civic Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 746-2705
Email: asch@wharton.upenn.edu

Professor of Medicine in Residence
Division of Hospital Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Room 5225, Box 0131
521 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0131
Phone: (415) 502-1412
Email: andrew.auerbach@ucsf.edu

Chief Quality Officer and Clinical Director
NYC Health + Hospitals Simulation Center
Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1400 Pelham Parkway South Building 1, 5N34
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: (718) 918-5034
Email: komal.bajaj@nychhc.org

Chief Medical Officer
Magellan Health
128 East Desert Wind Drive
Phoenix, AZ 85048
Phone: (317) 331-3244
Email: ccarneyd@gmail.com

Executive Director
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
1600 Feehanville Drive
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
Phone: (847) 391-4412
Email: acarter@nabp.pharmacy

Special Advocate for Children Maryland Health Care Commission
Baltimore, MD
(Retired) Luminis Health
Chief Quality and Population Health Officer
Phone: (240) 808-0589
Email: joanie_gel@outlook.com

President and CEO
Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health
123 South Broad Street, Suite 1235
Philadelphia, PA 19109
Phone: (215) 731-2472
Email: ngoldfarb@gpbch.org

Vice President for Health Justice
National Partnership for Women and Families
1725 Eye Street, NW, Suite 950
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 238-4875
Email: shc@nationalpartnership.org

Founder and CEO
Hughes Advocacy
Passion 4 Patients
401 Shiloh Circle
Birmingham, AL 35213
Phone: (205) 478-9829
Email: kahughes73@gmail.com

Senior Director of Nursing Research
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Executive Nursing Administration and Associate Professor
Office of Evidence Based Practice and Nursing Research
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
2611 West End Avenue, Suite 328
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615) 875-3343
Email: cathy.ivory@vumc.org

Associate Professor
The Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
Co-Director, Aging and Cognition Program
Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
University of Southern California
3715 McClintock Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone: (213) 986-6076
Email: mireillj@usc.edu

Former Senior Vice President, Quality and Safety
Primary Care Physician, Beacon Hill Primary Care
Division of General Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
Associate Professor
Departments of Medicine and Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Email: emort@partners.org

Professor of Medicine, Chief Safety Officer and Assistant Dean
Clinical Learning Environment Optimization
School of Graduate Medical Education
Mayo Clinic
200 First Street, SW
Rochester, MN 55905-0001
Phone: (507) 284-2447
Email: ramar.kannan@mayo.edu

Director, Clinical Transformation & Quality
Clinical Re-Engineering, Value-Based Programs
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
3 Penn Plaza East PP14S
Newark, NJ 07105-2200
Phone: (973) 466-6842
Email: jean_reyes@horizonblue.com

Dr. Verrill and Ruth Fischer Professor and Chair
Department of Family and Community Medicine
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
University of North Dakota
Room E187, Stop 9037
1301 North Columbia Road
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037
Phone: (701) 777-3264
Email: david.f.schmitz@und.edu

Professor and Chair, Family Medicine and Rural Health
Co-Chair Wellness Committee
College of Medicine
Florida State University
1115 West Call Street
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4300
Phone: (850) 644-4543
Email: joedrecka.brown@med.fsu.edu

Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
1040 Delta Boulevard, Suite 945
Atlanta, GA 30354
Phone: (404) 714-1529
Email: henry.ting@delta.com

Dean, Professor, and Glassell Family Foundation
Distinguished Chair in Informatics Excellence
School of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
7000 Fannin Street, Suite 600
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: (713) 500-3922
Email: jiajie.zhang@uth.tmc.edu
* Member is serving in a representative capacity.
NAC Coordinators
Jaime Zimmerman, MPH, PMP
Designated Management Official
Phone: (301) 427-1456
Email: jaime.zimmerman@ahrq.hhs.gov
Amy Rabin
NAC Coordinator
Phone: (202) 486-3875
Email: amy.rabin@ahrq.hhs.gov