David Lanier, M.D.
Interim Director
Center for Primary Care Research
U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

A graduate of the medical school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Lanier completed residency training in family medicine in the University of Rochester (NY)/Highland Hospital program and later completed fellowship training in academic family medicine at Baylor University. Prior to joining AHRQ (then named the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in 1993, Dr. Lanier was on the family practice faculty of the University of California at Irvine and then was named residency director and chief of the division of family medicine at Georgetown University.

From 1993 to 1995, he worked in the Agency's Forum for Quality and Effectiveness in Health Care before joining the staff of the Center for Primary Care Research. In 1996, he led a special research initiative on referrals from primary to specialty care. From September 1998 to January 2000, he served as the Center's Acting Director, and since 2003 has served as Associate Director of CP3. Dr. Lanier directs the Agency's initiative on PBRNs, which has provided funding for over 45 networks across the country, and also serves as the director of extramural research for CP3. He has completed research and published articles on numerous subjects, including low back pain, the ecology of medical care, and physician accountability. Dr. Lanier provides medical care to HIV-infected patients one half-day per week as a volunteer physician at the Whitman-Walker Clinic.