Patrick Conway, MD Chief Medical Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS; Executive Director, Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research
Patrick Conway is currently Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, the policy division for the Office of the Secretary. In 2007-08, he was a White House Fellow assigned to the Office of Secretary in HHS and the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. As Chief Medical Officer, he has a portfolio of work focused primarily on quality measurement and links to payment, health information technology, and research and evaluation across the entire Department. He is also currently Executive Director of the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research coordinating investment of the $1.1 billion for this type of research in the Recovery Act. He is a practicing pediatric hospitalist and health services researcher focused on improving health care quality. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and completed a Master’s of Science focused on health services research at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, serving senior management of mainly health care clients on strategy projects. He has published articles in journals such as JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, and Pediatrics and given national presentations on topics including health care policy, quality of care, adherence to evidence-based medicine, hospitalist systems, and nurse staffing. He currently practices at Children’s National Medical Center and is on leave from a faculty position at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He has done medical volunteer work in multiple countries including Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, and Ghana. He completed pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital Boston.