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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 14:169-172 (2002)
© 2002 International Society for Quality in Health Care

In Memoriam

John M. Eisenberg, MD, MBA

Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, USA. Senior Advisor on Quality to the Secretary. Co-Chair, Data Council. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of Health and Human Services. Operating Chair, Federal Quality Interagency. Coordination Task Force.

Quality Improvement Loses a Visionary Leader

The battle to improve health care quality lost one of its most beloved leaders this spring. John Eisenberg, MD, the gifted and effective leader of the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), lost his battle with brain cancer on March 10, 2002 at the age of 55. In what was sadly the last few years of his life, Dr Eisenberg had become an international leader for health care quality improvement. Called ‘John of AHRQ’, he was known for insisting that evidence from research should be brought to bear in answering key health policy, management, and practice questions. He was often heard to ask, ‘what’s the evidence for that?’ . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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