Mark McClellan, Co-Chair

Mark B. McClellan is the director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution. The Center studies ways to provide practical solutions for access, quality and financing challenges facing the U.S. health care system. Additionally, McClellan is the Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies and a Senior Fellow of Economic Studies.

McClellan was the former administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2004-2006) and the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (2002-2004). He served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for health care policy at the White House (2001-2002). He also served as the deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department.

McClellan has also served as an associate professor in both economics and medicine at Stanford University where he directed Stanford’s Program on Health Outcomes Research.

McClellan received a Master's Degree in Public Administration and Medical Degree from Harvard University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from MIT.