Richard Gray Kronick is an American

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researcher and professor of family and

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at the

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(UCSD), where he is also an adjunct professor of

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Biography

Kronick received his Ph.D. from the

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in political science in 1990. He first joined the UCSD faculty in 1991, and worked as a policy advisor to the

Clinton administration Bill Clinton's tenure as the 42nd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1993, and ended on January 20, 2001. Clinton, a Democrat from Arkansas, took office following a decisive election victory over Re ...

in the early 1990s. He joined the

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(HHS) in 2010 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. He was the director of the HHS's

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ; pronounced "ark" by initiates and often "A-H-R-Q" by the public) is one of twelve agencies within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The agency is headquartered i ...

from August 2013 until March 2016, when he stepped down to return to his position at UCSD. When his resignation was first announced,

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, the then-

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, said that "The value of AHRQ's work, and his leadership in developing that work, was never more important than it was in the past year when AHRQ's funding was at risk."

Honors and awards

Kronick was named one of ''

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''s 100 Most Influential People in 2014; that same year, he was elected to the

National Academy of Medicine The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly called the Institute of Medicine (IoM) until 2015, is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Medicine is a part of the National Academies of Sciences, En ...

Personal life

Kronick married Amy Beth Bridges in 1981, while he was studying for his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester.

References

External links

Faculty page
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