JSM Keynote Speakers Boast
Impressive Backgrounds
As the ASA membership gears up for JSM 2008, those planning to attend the annual meetings
of the Treasury for economic policy from
must decide which sessions to attend and which activities to undertake. There are several to choose 1998–1999, supervising economic analy-
from, but the keynote addresses are special. Each speaker was chosen specifically for his or her vast
sis and policy development for a range of
knowledge of statistics and dedicated work in the field. Here, we introduce these speakers and
domestic policy issues.
hope you will consider attending their addresses.
He was also an associate professor of
economics and medicine (with tenure) at
Stanford University, from which he was
President’s Invited Address
on leave during his government service.
He directed Stanford’s Program on Health
Mark B. McClellan,
Outcomes Research and was associate edi-
tor of the Journal of Health Economics and
Brookings Institution
co-principal investigator of the Health
“Health Care Considerations for
and Retirement Study—a longitudinal
the Millennium” study of the health and economic status
Monday, August 4, 4:00 p.m.
of older Americans. His academic research
has been concerned with the effective-
ness of medical treatments in improving
health, the economic and policy factors
options, including the move from indem-
influencing medical treatment decisions
nity insurance to personalized, prevention-
and health outcomes, the impact of new
McClellan oriented care
technologies on public health and medical
• Innovative approaches to coverage in
expenditures, and the relationship between
health status and economic well-being.
M
ark B. McClellan is senior fellow,
Medicaid and the State Children’s Health
He has twice received the Kenneth J.
director of the Engelberg Center
Insurance Program, including road maps
Arrow Award for Outstanding Research in
for Healthcare Reform, and
states have used to update and expand cov-
Health Economics.
Leonard D. Schaeffer Director’s Chair in
erage and the “Money Follows the Person”
McClellan is a member of the Institute
Health Policy Studies at the Brookings
initiatives in long-term care
of Medicine of the National Academy
Institution. He is also a visiting fellow at the
• The development of the FDA’s Critical
American Enterprise Institute, Harvard
of Sciences, a research associate of the
Path initiative, regulatory reforms to mod-
Business School, and The University
National Bureau of Economic Research,
ernize pharmaceutical manufacturing, effi-
of Texas.
and a member of the advisory boards of
cient risk-management methods to better
McClellan has a distinguished record in
the National Institute on Aging, American
address safety issues, and reforms to speed
public service and academic research. He
Heart Association, and Research!America.
the approval of low-cost generic medicines
is the former administrator for the Centers
A graduate of The University of Texas at
and improve the availability of safe and
for Medicare and Medicaid Services and
Austin, McClellan earned his MPA from
effective treatments
the former commissioner of the Food and
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
Drug Administration. He also served as
• Public-private initiatives to develop bet-
in 1991, his MD from the Harvard-
a member of the President’s Council of
ter information about the quality and cost
MIT Division of Health Sciences and
Economic Advisers and senior director for
of care and steps to help consumers and
Technology in 1992, and his PhD in eco-
health care policy at the White House. In
providers use this information to improve
nomics from MIT in 1993. He completed
these positions, he developed and imple-
care, including performance-based provider
his residency training in internal medi-
mented major reforms in health policy,
payment reforms, health savings accounts,
cine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
including the following:
and health reimbursement arrangements
in Boston. McClellan has been board-
certified in internal medicine and has
• The Medicare prescription drug
In the Clinton administration, been a practicing internist during his
benefit and other innovative coverage
McClellan was deputy assistant secretary academic career.
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