Speaker biographies

Gerard F. Anderson is a professor of health policy and management and international health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Hospital Finance and Management, and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Program for Medical Technology and Practice Assessment. He is currently conducting research on chronic conditions, comparative insurance systems in developing countries, medical education, hospital-payment reform, and technology diffusion. He was the national program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation–sponsored program called Partnership for Solutions: Better Lives for People with Chronic Conditions and he has directed reviews of health systems for the World Bank in Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, and Ecuador. Prior to his arrival at Johns Hopkins in 1983, Dr. Anderson held various positions in the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he helped to develop Medicare prospective payment legislation. He has authored two books on health-care payment policy, published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, and testified before Congress more than thirty times as an individual witness. He currently serves on multiple editorial committees.

Joseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at AEI and an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. He is also a commissioner on the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission. Prior to coming to AEI, Mr. Antos served as assistant director for health and human resources at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the division within the CBO that provides Congress with analyses of proposed changes to federal programs and policies in areas such as health, income security, education, employment, and housing. Mr. Antos was the director of the Office of Research and Demonstrations and deputy director of the Office of the Actuary at the Health Care Financing Administration. He served as deputy chief of staff and the principal deputy assistant secretary for management and budget at the Department of Health and Human Services.

John E. Calfee is a resident scholar at AEI. From 1980 to 1986, he served in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Calfee has taught marketing and consumer behavior in the business schools of the University of Maryland–College Park and Boston University, and was a visiting senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Calfee’s research has focused on regulation (especially FDA regulation), health care, advertising and information, tort liability, and other related areas. He is the author of Prices, Markets, and the Pharmaceutical Revolution (AEI Press, 2000) and Fear of Persuasion: A New Perspective on Advertising and Regulation (AEI Press, 1997).

Mark B. McClellan, M.D., is a visiting senior fellow at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. Dr. McClellan served as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from March 2004 to October 2006. He previously served as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration beginning in November 2002. During 2001 and 2002, Dr. McClellan served in the White House as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he advised the president on domestic economic issues and was a senior policy director for health care and related economic issues. From 1998–1999, he was deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy, in which capacity he supervised economic analysis and policy development on a wide range of domestic policy issues. Dr. McClellan is on leave from Stanford University, where he was associate professor of economics and associate professor of medicine at Stanford Medical School. At Stanford Medical School, Dr. McClellan was a practicing internist and director of the Program on Health Outcomes Research. He was previously a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a visiting scholar at AEI. 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, a longitudinal study of the health and economic well-being of older Americans. Dr. McClellan’s research studies have addressed measuring and improving the quality of health care, the economic and policy factors influencing medical treatment decisions and health outcomes, estimating the effects of medical treatments, technological change in health care and its consequences for health and medical expenditures, and the relationship between health and economic well-being. He has twice received the Arrow Award for Outstanding Research in Health Economics, and he is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Michael A. Valentino was assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Central Office as the chief consultant for the Pharmacy Benefits Management Strategic Healthcare Group in June 2004. In this position, Mr. Valentino is responsible for planning and directing a wide variety of VA pharmacy issues, including drug-benefit design, formulary management, pharmaceutical contracting, automated prescription fulfillment, professional pharmacy practice, emergency pharmacy services, and drug therapy policy development. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Valentino served as the associate chief consultant for the Pharmacy Benefits Management Strategic Healthcare Group in Hines, Illinois, where his responsibilities included managing VA national formulary initiatives, assessing pharmaceutical outcomes, and assisting the VA National Acquisition Center with administration of both the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Pharmaceutical Prime Vendor contract and the Veterans Health Care act of 1992 (PL 102-585). Mr. Valentino has also served as director of primary care and chief of pharmacy service at the Topeka VA Medical Center; formulary leader for VA Network 15; and several other VHA pharmacy manager and staff pharmacist positions. Mr. Valentino, a U.S. Army veteran, is a recipient of Vice President Al Gore’s National Performance Award for Reinventing Government for participation in the development of VA’s prototype barcode medication administration system. He also received the 2006 Andrew Craigie Award from the American Society of Military Surgeons.

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