Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, MPA, is senior fellow, director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, and Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Established in 2007, the Engelberg Center provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable healthcare with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state, and local levels.
A doctor and economist by training, Dr. McClellan has a highly distinguished record in public service and academic research. He is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. He has served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for health care policy at the White House under President George W. Bush. He also served in the Clinton Administration as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy, where he supervised economic analysis and policy development on a range of domestic policy issues. Dr. McClellan was an associate professor of economics and associate professor of medicine with tenure at Stanford University, where he directed Stanford’s Program on Health Outcomes Research; served as associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics; and was co-principal investigator of the Health and Retirement Study. He has twice received the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for Outstanding Research in Health Economics.
In his capacity as a health policy expert, Dr. McClellan is the co-director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Leaders’ Project on the State of American Health Care, co-chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America, and chair of the FDA’s Reagan-Udall Foundation. He is also co-chair of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, sits on the National Quality Forum’s Board of Directors, is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Dr. McClellan holds an MD from the Harvard University–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, a PhD in economics from MIT, an MPA from Harvard University, and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, is board-certified in Internal Medicine, and has been a practicing internist during his career.
