Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Research:
McClellan's research studies have addressed measuring and improving the quality of health care and the relationship between health and economic well-being.

Career Highlights:
Dr. McClellen earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and his PhD in economics from MIT. A board-certified internal medicine physician, McClellan completed his residency training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Dr. McClellan was sworn in to his current position on March 25, 2004. McClellan previously served as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. During 2001 and 2002, he served in the White House as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and was a senior policy director for health care and related economic issues. From 1998-99, he was deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy.

Dr. McClellan is on leave from Stanford University, where he was an associate professor of economics and an associate professor of medicine at Stanford Medical School. At Stanford Medical School he was a practicing internist and director of the Program on Health Outcomes Research. He was also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Additionally, he was a member of the National Cancer Policy Board of the National Academy of Sciences, associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and co-principal investigator of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a longitudinal study of the health and economic well-being of older Americans.

Dr. McClellan has twice received the Arrow Award for Outstanding Research in Health Economics, and he is a member of the Institute of Medicine.