Former CMMS Administrator, FDA Commissioner McClellan Talks Cancer Prevention and Health Care Reform at UT MD Anderson
• Friday, February 17, 2012, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.• The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center• 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Hickey Auditorium, 11th floor
Note: Media interviews are available after audience Q&A.
Newswise — HOUSTON ― Economist and health care policy expert Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., will keynote an address on prevention and health care reform at 8 a.m., Friday, Feb. 17 in The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Hickey Auditorium.
The lecture is part of a lecture series sponsored by the Duncan Family Institute for Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship to Leonard Zwelling, M.D., professor of Experimental Therapeutics at MD Anderson.
McClellan served under former President George W. Bush as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
McClellan’s talk will touch on health care reform and how it may affect preventive services and care to the public. His research interests are focused on health care technology costs, quality health care measurement and influential economic and policy factors that help predict treatment decisions and health outcomes.
His current work at Brookings incorporates accountability in care including a focus on rising health care costs and ongoing global economic pressures that address health care efficiency and quality. The center’s goal is to offer solutions that will provide high-quality affordable health care at national, state and local levels.
A native of Texas, McClellan graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and went on to earn his medical degree from Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences in Technology and his doctoral degree in economics from MIT. He is a two-time winner of the Arrow Award for Outstanding Research in Health Economics, an annual award presented by the International Health Economics Association for the best paper in health economics.
About MD AndersonThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston ranks as one of the world's most respected centers focused on cancer patient care, research, education and prevention. MD Anderson is one of only 40 comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute. For eight of the past 10 years, including 2011, MD Anderson has ranked No. 1 in cancer care in "America's Best Hospitals," a survey published annually in U.S. News & World Report.
About Duncan Family Institute The Duncan Family Institute for Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment helps scientists accelerate the pace of discovery and translate research findings to the clinic and the community. Based in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, the Duncan Family Institute brings together scientists and clinicians to focus on understanding cancer at its earliest stages and to develop these discoveries to reduce the burden of cancer and advance public health in support of MD Anderson’s goal of Making Cancer History®.
About Robert Wood Johnson FoundationThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change.
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