David M. Introcaso, Ph.D.

David M. Introcaso, Ph.D., is the Evaluation Officer for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). His responsibilities include identifying, designing and managing both formative and summative evaluation projects covering an array of health care service delivery subjects. AHRQ's evaluation portfolio currently numbers over fifteen projects that include studies of children's health, chronic care self-management support programs, health care disparities, health information technology, patient safety, pharmaceuticals, prevention and quality indicators.

Prior to AHRQ, David worked at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, the National Institute of Nursing Research at NIH and at DC General Hospital. He spent the first 12 years of his career doing environmental/natural resources research in the American Southwest. Among other awards David was a four-year W. K. Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellow and a Fellow in Change Management at Johns Hopkins University.

Over the past twenty years he has also worked (as board president, etc.) with several community or non-profit organizations, e.g., in adult literacy and food security. Most recently David has taught bio- and business ethics as an adjunct at the University of Chicago, Georgetown and George Washington University. He was graduated from Arizona State with a social science BS, MA and Ph.D.