Dr. Chaing is the Associate Program Director of the Clinical Effectiveness Research Program at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). His primary responsibilities are to assist the program director in the implementation of strategic objectives and direction, contribute to the program’s portfolio development, and identify and build new partnerships in facilitating the execution of all scientific program activities.
Before joining PCORI, Chiang was acting director of Center for Outcomes and Evidence at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In that capacity, he assumed the center’s strategy planning, scientific development, budgeting, and staff mentoring responsibilities, and oversaw the Center’s daily research program operations and management. Prior to joining AHRQ, Chiang held a number of positions at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), and the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). Among his primary responsibilities and research projects were Medicare risk adjustment studies, Medicare HMO evaluations, Medicare Choices demonstration, and two Congressional studies assessing the effects of health care reform.