Dr. Gail Wilensky
GAIL WILENSKY, an economist, and a Senior Fellow at Project HOPE which analyzes and develops policies relating to health care reform and to ongoing changes in the health care environment.

Dr. Wilensky is a Commissioner on the WHO’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, is co-chair of the Department of Defense task force on the Future of Military Health Care, is Vice Chair of the Maryland Health Care Commission and serves as a trustee of the Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mineworkers of America and the National Opinion Research Center. She is a former chair of the board of directors of Academy Health, and a former trustee of the American Heart Association.

From 1990 to 1992, she was Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, directing the Medicare and Medicaid programs. She also served as Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush for Policy Development, advising him on health and welfare issues from 1992 to 1993.

Dr. Wilensky testifies frequently before Congressional committees, acts as an advisor to members of Congress and other elected officials, and speaks nationally and internationally before professional, business and consumer groups. She received a bachelors degree in psychology and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan.

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