HHS Transition Team Leaders Named

By John Reichard, CQ HealthBeat Editor in Commonwealth Fund Washington Health Policy Week in Review

One former House staffer and one former Clinton administration official became the latest to be tapped Friday to manage the Obama administration's transition activities for the Department of Health and Human Services.

William V. Corr, a proponent of tough Food and Drug Administration regulation and a former staffer for California Democrat Henry A. Waxman̵when he ran the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce panel in the 1980s—was named an "agency review team leader."

Also named was Nicole Lurie, who served as principal deputy assistant secretary for health in the last two years of the Clinton administration. Lurie is an expert on public health and health care disparities and has written on bioterrorism preparedness issues. She is now with the Rand Corporation, a think tank that analyzes a variety of policy issues.