March 7 lecture: "Patient-centered care in an era of system transformation" by AHRQ Director Carolyn
The 2013 Samuel Tibbitts Distinguished Lecture:
Who: Carolyn Clancy, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
What: "Making the Science Count: Patient-Centered Care in an Era of System Transformation"
When: March 7, 2013 (Thursday) at 12 noon
Where: UCLA Louis Jolyon West Auditorium (C8-183 NPI) [Map]
UCLA Semel Institute
760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Please join us for a fascinating look at how data is informing patient-centered care, especially in the context of health care reform. Carolyn Clancy, a general internist and health services researcher, heads the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which seeks to advance evidence-based research to produce measurable improvements in health care in America, gauged in terms of improved quality of life and patient outcomes, lives saved, and value gained for what we spend. Clancy's major research interests include improving health care quality and patient safety and reducing disparities in care associated with patients' race, ethnicity, gender, income, and education. As director of AHRQ, she launched the first annual report to Congress on health care disparities and health care quality.
A graduate of Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Clancy is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was elected a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2004. In 2009, she was awarded the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research. The annual Samuel Tibbitts Distinguished Lecture is named in honor of Samuel and Audrey Tibbitts and is sponsored by the UCLA Department of Health Policy and Management within the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health as well as by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. There is no cost to attend.
See slides from this event here.
About the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) is one of the nation’s leading health policy research centers and the premier source of health policy information for California. UCLA CHPR improves the public’s health through high quality, objective, and evidence-based research and data that informs effective policymaking. UCLA CHPR is the home of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and is part of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. For more information, visit healthpolicy.ucla.edu.
