MARK B MCCLELLAN, MD, PHD

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Mark McClellan

Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, is the Robert J. Margolis professor of business, medicine, and policy, and director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. In his roles as a doctor and economist, his work has addressed a wide range of strategies and policy reforms to improve healthcare. Prior to Duke, he served as a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution where he was director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiatives and led the Richard Merkin Initiative on Payment Reform and Clinical Leadership. Dr. McClellan is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy and public-private initiatives. He is the founding chair and a current board member of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA; chairs the National Academy of Medicine’s Leadership Council for Value and Science-Driven Health Care; co-chairs the guiding committee of the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network; and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. McClellan previously served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, as a senior director for healthcare policy at the White House, and as deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. As a previous associate professor of economics and medicine with tenure at Stanford University, he has twice received the Kenneth Arrow Award for Outstanding Research in Health Economics.