Yen-pin Chiang, PhD, is the Deputy Chief Science Officer at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).  Prior to this position, he served as the Interim Program Director of the Clinical Effectiveness Research program, where his primary responsibilities were to develop and implement PCORI’s strategic objectives and research portfolio in assessing the comparative effectiveness of healthcare services and alternative clinical strategies across a broad range of clinical domains.

Before 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. 

Chiang received a BA and MA in political science from National Taiwan University, and a PhD in political science and health policy from the University of Rochester.