Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy
Executive Director, Office of Policy
Elise Sweeney Anthony serves as the Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and Executive Director of Policy at ASTP/ONC. Ms. Anthony leads ASTP/ONC’s engagement on a range of high-priority federal policy efforts, including regulatory development, information blocking, MACRA implementation, and governance. Her portfolio also includes emerging issues and health IT policy matters impacting EHR Incentive Program participants and other care settings.
Prior to this position, she served as the Deputy Director of Policy where she led the Division of Strategic Policy, the Division of State and Interoperability Policy, and the Division of Federal Policy and Regulatory Affairs. She also led ONC’s coordination with CMS on the EHR Incentive Program regulations—including the 2014 CEHRT Flexibility Rule and the Stage 3 and Modifications to Meaningful Use in 2015 through 2017 final rule.
Ms. Anthony received her Bachelor’s degree in political science at Morgan State University as a Ralph Bunche Scholar and her Juris Doctor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was trial advocate of the year.