Mark McClellan, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Health Policy Advisor, Dean's Office
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
About
Mark McClellan is the senior health policy advisor and professor of internal medicine at Dell Medical School. He is also the director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. He is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy. These include the Medicare prescription drug benefit, Medicare and Medicaid payment reforms, the FDA’s Critical Path Initiative and public-private initiatives to develop better information on the quality and cost of care. He has also previously served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for health care policy at the White House and as deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Department of the Treasury.
McClellan is the founding chair and a current board member of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). At NAM, he chairs the 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. He is also an independent director on the board of Johnson and Johnson and on the board of Alignment Health Care. He serves on a number of non-profit boards including the National Council on Aging, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and the Long-term Quality Alliance.
He was previously an associate professor of economics and medicine with tenure at Stanford University and has twice received the Kenneth Arrow Award for Outstanding Research in Health Economics.