Carolyn Clancy, M.D., director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will speak Monday during the 31st Midwest Nursing Research Society Conference in Omaha.
The conference, which is being hosted by the UNMC College of Nursing, will be held March 23-26.
Dr. Clancy’s closing keynote speech, which starts at 8:30 a.m., is titled, “Getting from Here to There: Driving Quality Improvement through Value-based Health Care.”
Though most of the conference is being held at the Qwest Center, Monday’s sessions will be at the Hilton Omaha, across the street from the arena.
The Monday morning session includes Dr. Clancy’s keynote, as well as presentations on how to get funding for research. The presentations are scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
To register for only the March 26 morning sessions, go to the second-floor registration desk in the Hilton. The cost is $75.
AHRQ is one of 12 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agencies that support health services research to improve quality of health care.
The conference, which will highlight the latest in nursing research discoveries and trends, is expected to draw about 800 nursing professionals and students from a 13-state region. It also will include more than 350 research presentations, workshops, meetings, exhibits, and a gala event and silent auction to raise funds for research grants.
A wide variety of research study results dealing with topics such as adolescent and women’s health, caregiving, genetics, end-of-life care, addiction and substance abuse, will be discussed.
Numerous nursing faculty members from UNMC also will present their research.
Dr. Clancy was appointed director of the AHRQ on February 2003. Prior to her appointment, she had served as AHRQ’s acting director since March 2002 and previously served as director of the agency’s Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research.
Dr. Clancy, who is a general internist and health services researcher, is a graduate of Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Following clinical training in internal medicine, Dr. Clancy was a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She was also an assistant professor in the department of internal medicine at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond before joining AHRQ in 1990.
Dr. Clancy holds an academic appointment at George Washington University School of Medicine (clinical associate professor, department of medicine) and serves as senior associate editor for Health Services Research.
Dr. Clancy has served on multiple editorial boards (currently Annals of Family Medicine, American Journal of Medical Quality and Medical Care Research and Review). Dr. Clancy has published widely in peer reviewed journals and has edited or contributed to seven books. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was elected a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2004.
Her major research interests include various dimensions of health care quality and patient access to care services and the impact of financial incentives on physicians’ decisions.
To register for the entire conference, which is open to members and non-members of the Midwest Nursing Research Society, go to www.mnrs.org.