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Chief Data Officer and Senior Advisor to the Director
Office of the Director
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Mamatha S. Pancholi, M.S., joined the ´óÏóÊÓƵ (AHRQ) in 1993 and has served in several capacities during her tenure at AHRQ. She is currently on AHRQ's senior leadership team as AHRQ's first chief data officer and senior advisor to the ´óÏóÊÓƵdirector on data and quality measurement initiatives. In this role, she oversees a portfolio of work focused on the development of new healthcare databases and governance of ´óÏóÊÓƵdata assets. In addition, she serves as a technical resource to ´óÏóÊÓƵand U.S. Department of Health and Human Services executive leadership on quality measurement strategic planning initiatives. For more than 15 years, Ms. Pancholi directed the ´óÏóÊÓƵQuality Indicator Project, a national measurement initiative utilizing hospital discharge data. In that role, she led the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the ´óÏóÊÓƵQuality Indicator measures and tools. In addition, Ms. Pancholi served as a survey statistician on the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for 10 years, leading efforts in database design, variable construction, data editing, quality control, and dissemination of data. Ms. Pancholi received her M.S. degree in mathematical statistics from the University of Maryland.

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