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Arlene S. Bierman, MD, MS (she/her/hers)

Chief Strategy Officer
AHRQ
AHRQ, Maryland, United States

Arlene S. Bierman, M.D., M.S., is Chief Strategy Officer of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Previously she was director of AHRQ’s Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (CEPI). Dr. Bierman is a general internist, geriatrician, and health services researcher whose work has focused on improving access, quality, and outcomes of health care for older adults with chronic illness in disadvantaged populations and has published widely in these areas. Dr. Bierman has conducted research to increase policymakers’ uptake of evidence. She is developing an interoperable shared electronic care plan for use to improve care delivery for people living with or at risk for multiple chronic conditions. As tenured professor she held appointments Health Policy, Evaluation, and Management; Public Health; and Medicine; and Nursing at the University of Toronto, where she was the inaugural holder of the Ontario Women's Health Council Chair in Women's Health and a senior scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's Hospital. She was principal investigator for the Project for an Ontario Women’s Health Evidence-Based Report Card (POWER) study, which provided actionable data to help policymakers and health care providers improve health and reduce health inequities in Ontario. Dr. Bierman has served on many advisory committees including the Geriatric Measurement Advisory Panel of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the Institutional Advisory Board of the CIHR Institute for Health Services and Policy Research. She received her MD degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill where she was a Morehead Fellow. She completed fellowships in Outcomes Research at Dartmouth Medical School, and Community and Preventive Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and served as an Atlantic Philanthropies Health and Aging Policy Fellow/American Political Science Foundation Congressional Fellow.

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