Arizona State University

W.P. Carey School of Business

Department of supply

In conjunction with: Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium-CAPS Research

Annual Symposium on Innovation and Transparency

April 6, 2016 1:30-4:30

Dr. Marty Makary is a New York Times best-selling author, Johns Hopkins surgeon, and NBC and FOX News medical commentator. He was the creator of the Surgical Checklist later popularized in the book The Checklist Manifesto. He served on the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Surgery Checklist workgroup and chaired the W.H.O. technical workgroup on measuring surgical quality worldwide. Dr. Makary has been named to America’s 40 Smartest People in Health Care by Becker’s Review. He is the author of Unaccountable, a book about doctor-led efforts to make health care better for patients, and Mama Maggie, a book about a Nobel Prize nominee known as the Mother Theresa of Egypt. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and TIME magazine. He is the guest host of CSPAN’s Book TV for science books.At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Makary is chief of Islet Transplantation Surgery and is a professor of Health Policy & Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2006, Dr. Makary was named the Mark Ravitch endowed Chair of Gastrointestinal Surgery at Johns Hopkins, and in 2010 was named Director of Surgical Quality & Safety at Johns Hopkins. His research focuses on health trends, the evaluation of new technology, and health care reform. Dr. Makary completed his education at Bucknell University, Thomas Jefferson University, and Harvard University and completed his general surgery residency at Georgetown University and further sub-specialty training in GI and cancer surgery at Johns Hopkins. He lives in the Washington D.C. area.

Mark McKenna Health Policy Lecture – 2016

April 6, 2016, 5:30 https://wpcarey.asu.edu/research/health-supply-chain/mckenna-lecture

Improving Health Care Performance

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, is a senior fellow and director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiatives at the Brookings Institution. Within Brookings, his work focuses on strategies and policy reforms to improve health care, including such areas as payment reform to promote better outcomes and lower costs, better evidence from clinical experience, and more effective drug and device innovation. He also leads the Richard Merkin Initiative on Payment Reform and Clinical Leadership. A doctor and economist, he also has a highly distinguished record in public service and in academic research. Dr. McClellan is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy. These include the Medicare prescription drug benefit, Medicare and Medicaid payment reforms, the FDA’s Critical Path Initiative, and public-private initiatives to develop better information on the quality and cost of care. Dr. McClellan is the founding chair and a current board member of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA, is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and chairs the Academy’s Leadership Council for Value and Science-Driven Health

care, co-chairs the guiding committee of the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has also previously served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for health care policy at the White House, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Department of the Treasury. He was previously an associate professor of economics and medicine with tenure at Stanford University, and has twice received the Kenneth Arrow Award for Outstanding Research in Health Economics.