AHRQ National Advisory Council Has Added Eight New Members

The National Advisory Council (NAC) for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has added eight new members who will convene with the council for their next meeting online on Thursday, March 14, 11:15 a.m.– 4:00 p.m. E.T. The NAC, which consists of 20 members from the private sector and 7 ex-officio members from other Federal health agencies, provides advice to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Director of the Agency.

The new members of the NAC are:

• Peter B. Angood, M.D., F.R.C.S.(C), President and Chief Executive Officer, American Association for Physician Leadership
• Mason B. Emert, M.P.H., Epidemiologist, Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority
• Sharon Weidner Hickman, M.B.A., C.P.H.Q., Founding Principal and President, ChangeZen Consulting, LLC
• Sunil Kripalani, M.D., M.Sc., Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for Health Services Research; Director, Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Cari Levy, M.D., Ph.D., Goodstein Professor of Medicine; Division Head, Geriatric Medicine; Director, Multidisciplinary Center on Aging, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
• Mary Beth Flynn Makic, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., Professor, College of Nursing, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
• Michael L. Millenson, President, Health Quality Advisors, LLC
• Joseph M. (Mario) Molina, M.D., Former President and Chief Executive Officer of Molina Healthcare

For more detailed bios of these new members, an overview of the NAC with a full roster of all members and AHRQ coordinators, and more information about the NAC, please visit National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The March 14 AHRQ NAC meeting will be available through Zoom starting at 11:00 a.m., E.T., and is open to the public. If you would like to make a public comment during the meeting, please email NationalAdvisoryCouncil@ahrq.hhs.gov no later than 2:00 p.m. E.T. on March 14. The time allotted for public comments is 3:30-3:45 p.m. E.T. For the full meeting agenda, please visit National Advisory Council (NAC) Meeting Agenda.

For the Zoom instructions for joining the meeting, please visit Zoom Webinar Instructions. Closed captioning will be provided, the meeting will be recorded, and the recording will be posted on AHRQ’s website a few weeks after the meeting. 

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