Life After FDA

You have to admit: Mark McClellan, MD, has quite a resumé. But after you've been the commissioner of FDA and the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), what comes next?

For McClellan, who was awarded a fellowship at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies after leaving CMS, it's about finishing what he started. Under his leadership, the think tank launched the new Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, which seeks to find practical solutions to the very big questions surrounding the safety, affordability, and quality of medical care.

Industry insiders see McClellan as a "less talk, more action" kind of guy and hope his new post will add horsepower to moving discussions about public policy reforms into action. (After all, Medicare Part D was enacted under his watch.) Here, Pharm Exec talks to McClellan about what it will take to improve the drug safety system and the challenges that face industry and regulators alike.

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