McClellan to lead commission

Former CMS Administrator Mark McClellan, M.D., who also served as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, was named chairman of the Washington-based Commission of the Center for Aging Services Technologies, the organization has announced. The center is a coalition of “400 technology companies, aging services organizations, research universities and government representatives,” formed “under the auspices of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging,” a trade association of not-for-profit nursing homes, according to its website. McClellan, 46, is director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution, Washington.