Dr. Ernest Moy

Ernest Moy is a medical officer in the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). At AHRQ, his work has included directing the development of the annual National Healthcare Disparities Report and National Healthcare Quality Report and supporting AHRQ’s Excellence Centers for the Elimination of Ethnic/Racial Disparities and AHRQ’s Patient Safety Organization program. Prior to joining AHRQ, he was director of research and assistant vice president of the Center for the Assessment and Management of Change in Academic Medicine at the Association of American Medical Colleges, where he conducted research on the missions of academic medical centers and developed benchmarking tools to help these institutions improve performance.

Dr. Moy is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Medicine. Following internal medicine residency, he was a general internal medicine fellow at Columbia University, a Robert Wood Johnson Health Care Finance fellow at Johns Hopkins University, and an assistant professor of medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Dr. Moy’s research interests include disparities in access and quality of care, particularly as they relate to academic medical centers, patient safety, and technology diffusion. He is chair of the Racial and Ethic Disparities Committee of the American Public Health Association’s Medical Care Section.