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Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, is a former administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and a former FDA commissioner in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In July 2007, McClellan was named senior fellow and director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and holder of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution (Washington, DC). He is also an associate professor of economics and associate professor of medicine at Stanford University.

McClellan has had a highly distinguished tenure of public service. In the George W. Bush administration, he served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for healthcare policy at the White House (2001–2002), FDA commissioner (2002–2004), and CMS administrator (2004-2006).

In the Clinton administration, McClellan was deputy assistant secretary of the treasury for economic policy (1998–1999). He subsequently directed Stanford University’s program on health outcomes research and was a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, he earned his MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 1991, his MD from the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 1992, and his PhD in economics from MIT in 1993.