NIHCM Foundation Advisory Board
Donald M. Berwick, MD
Former President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; former professor of pediatrics and health care policy, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health; former staff, Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital; former Vice Chair, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force; former Independent Member, Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association; former Chair, National Advisory Council, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; elected member, Institute of Medicine; served on President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry.
James C. Capretta, MA
Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; consultant, Civic Enterprises, LLC; Senior Advisor, Leavitt Partners; Adjunct Fellow, Global Aging Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies with the Hudson Institute; former Associate Director, White House Office of Management and Budget, 2001-2004; frequent contributor to national publications and commentator for major news programs.
Michael E. Chernew, PhD
Professor of Health Policy, Harvard Medical School; Co-Editor, American Journal of Managed Care; Senior Associate Editor, Health Services Research; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; member, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; member, Congressional Budget Office Panel of Health Advisors; elected member, Institute of Medicine; member, Commonwealth Foundation Commission on a High Performance Health Care System; former board member, Health Affairs and Medical Care Research and Review.
Senator Bill Frist, MD
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader; Chairman, Hope Through Healing Hands; Former University Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University; Former Frederick H. Schultz Class of 1951 Visiting Professor of International Economic Policy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Fellow, American College of Surgeons; Board of Fellows, Harvard Medical School.
Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD
Founding President, Center for Studying Health System Change; founding Executive Director, Physician Payment Review Commission; former Senior Economist, RAND; former Deputy Assistant Director, Congressional Budget Office; former faculty, Duke and Michigan State Universities; former Economist, U.S. Public Health Service; former member, AcademyHealth Board of Directors; founding member, National Academy of Social Insurance.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, PhD
President, American Action Forum; former Commissioner, Congressionally-chartered Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; former Chief Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers; Director, non-partisan Congressional Budget Office; former Director of Domestic and Economic Policy, John McCain presidential campaign; former President of DHE Consulting; former Senior Fellow, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, former Director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies; former Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics, Council of foreign Relations; former Trustee Professor of Economics, Maxwell School; former chairman, Department of Economics, former Associate Director, Center for Policy Research.
Robert P. Kocher, MD
Partner, Venrock; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, The Brookings Institution; former Director, McKinsey Center for Health Reform, McKinsey & Company; former Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and Economic Policy; former member of the National Economic Council; former Partner, McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey and Company.
Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD
Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution; former Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid; former Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration; former member, President’s Council of Economic Advisers; former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Treasury for Economic Policy; former Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University; former Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford Medical School.
Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD
James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; elected member, Institute of Medicine and served on IOM's Governing Council; board member and Past President, Association of Health Services Research; Trustee, Duke University Health System; former member, National Leadership Commission on Health Care; former board member, Physician Payment Review Commission.
Robert Reischauer, PhD
President Emeritus, Urban Institute; Vice Chair, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; Administrator, Board of Overseers, Harvard University; Administrator, Harvard Corporation; former Director, Congressional Budget Office; former Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; former Senior Vice President, Urban Institute; former board member, AcademyHealth; member, National Academy of Sciences; founding member, National Academy of Social Insurance.
James C. Robinson, PhD
Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Economics, and Director, Berkeley Center for Health Technology, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health; Chair, Health and Policy Program, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley; faculty member, Health Management Program, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley; former Editor-in-chief, Health Affairs; board member, Integrated HealthCare Association.