In addition to being Assistant Director of Health Services Research Information at NLM, Ms. Lang is Head of its National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR). She is responsible for the NLM's activities to support the information needs of health services researchers and the public health workforce. She is also involved in NLM's health data standards development activities.
Before joining the NLM, Ms. Lang worked in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, where she was at the forefront of the agency's implementation of the public-private collaboration to promote public reporting on hospital quality of care, as well as its efforts to identify hospital quality measures for value-based purchasing. Her prior experience includes more than a decade focusing on quality and consumer protection issues as a Senior Health Policy Analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, as well as a visiting fellowship at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, California.
Ms. Lang received a B.A. from Stanford University in Psychology and Russian Language and a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
