National Board of Advisors
Bruce Vladeck, Interim President, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Bruce C. Vladeck is a Principal in the Health Sciences Advisory Services practice of Ernst & Young LLP, and East Coast Director of its Academic Medical Center service line. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Primary Care Development Corporation, a member of the New York City Board of Health, and a Trustee of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and the Medicare Rights Center.
From 1993 through 1997, Dr. Vladeck was Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In that position, he directed the Medicare and Medicaid programs, providing health insurance to more than 65 million Americans with combined annual expenditures of more than $300 billion, and played a central role in insuring the future solvency of the Medicare Trust Funds. Subsequent to his service at HCFA, Dr. Vladeck was appointed by President Clinton to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare.
Dr. Vladeck’s long career in health care has included ten years as President of the United Hospital Fund of New York, and senior positions at Columbia University, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Mount Sinai Medical Center. From 1979 through 1982, he served as Assistant Commissioner of the New Jersey State Department of Health. He has also served on numerous boards and advisory committees in both the public and private sectors.
At the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected in 1986, Dr. Vladeck chaired the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People. Among many other honors and awards, Dr. Vladeck received the 1995 National Public Service Award, the 1996 Hubert H. Humphrey Award of the American Political Science Association, and the 1998 President’s Award of the American Society on Aging.
A nationally-recognized expert on health care policy, health care financing, and long-term care, Dr. Vladeck has published widely, perhaps most notably in his book, Unloving Care: The Nursing Home Tragedy (Basic Books: 1980).
He received his BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and an MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan.
