Director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety,
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC
wmunier@AHRQ.gov
William B. Munier, MD, is currently serving as Director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (the Center) at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality within the Department of Health and Human Services. The Center has lead responsibility for implementing the new Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005; production of the annual National Health Quality Report and National Health Disparities Report; and development and maintenance of the widely-used CAHPS surveys that measure patients’ health care experience. The Center also supports a broad array of initiatives designed to further quality improvement and patient safety.
Dr. Munier has been in healthcare management most of his career with a particular focus on performance measurement, quality and safety, and clinical software development. Prior to joining AHRQ, Dr. Munier was President and CEO of Wang Healthcare, which produced an electronic health record for physicians’ offices; president of Quality Standards in Medicine, which produced an expert system for measuring quality in hospitals; director of the Department of Defense Civilian Peer Review of Military Care Program (for CPHA, the prime contractor); partner at Ernst & Whinney; and Executive Vice President of the Massachusetts Medical Society, publishers of The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Munier received a BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania, an MD from Columbia University, and an MBA from Harvard University.