Mark McClellan

Mark B. McClellan, MD, Ph.D., is a doctor and an economist whose work has addressed a wide range of strategies and policy reforms to improve health care, including policy reforms to promote better outcomes at lower costs, methods for development and use real-world evidence and approaches for more effective drug and device innovation. Dr. McClellan is former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & 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.

Dr. McClellan is the Director of the Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University, where he is a professor of business, medicine, and policy. He has served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors and the National Economic Council, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. He was also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor of economics and medicine at Stanford University where he directed the Program of Health Outcomes Research.