Barton joins NCQA as VP

Mary Barton, MD, MPP, will become the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s new vice president for performance measurement.

Barton comes to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), where she was the scientific director of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). In that role, she provided oversight for the methodological, evidence review and recommendation-making work of the USPSTF.

Prior to joining AHRQ, she was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, where she performed clinical epidemiology and health services research related to cancer screening and prevention focusing on access, test performance and outcomes, the Washington, D.C.-based NCQA stated.

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