Dr. Kronick’s appointment comes as current AHRQ director, Carolyn Clancy, MD, will leave the position later this month.
Dr. Kronick is deputy assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. He has long been a health policy adviser and researcher and has done work for the University of California in San Diego, the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare’s Medicaid Division and the Clinton administration.
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