Short Biography: Barry M. Straube, M.D.
Barry M. Straube, M.D., is currently a Director at the Marwood Group. The Marwood Group is a healthcare advisory and financial services firm headquartered in New York City with offices in Washington, DC and London. The Marwood Group provides services to institutional investors, corporations and trade associations. Prior to joining the Marwood Group in September,2011, Dr.Straube was Chief Medical Officer for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as well as the Director of the CMS Office of Clinical Standards & Quality (OCSQ). Serving in those roles from 2005-2011, he was the most senior clinical advisor to the CMS Administrator and CMS leadership. His office led: Medicare coverage decision-making; quality standards oversight for U.S. healthcare facilities; quality measurement and health assessment tools; information technology systems for clinical quality data; quality improvement/innovation plus value-based purchasing initiatives; and many other activities in the Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP programs, not the least of which included implementation of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. Educated at Princeton University (A.B. Degree, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and the University of Michigan Medical School (M.D. degree), he completed an Internal Medicine Residency at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and a Renal Fellowship at Tufts University-New England Medical Center in Boston. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. From 1982-1994 he was a medical leader, including serving as Chief of the Division of Nephrology and as a member of the Departments of Internal Medicine and the Department of Transplantation, at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. He was Vice President of Quality Improvement at Health Net, the fourth largest national HMO at the time, from 1994 to 1999. Subsequently, he served as the CMS Chief Medical Officer at CMS for Region IX (CA, AZ, NV, HI, and the far PacificTerritories). He has had leadership roles in hospitals, physician organizations, HMOs, and many national quality initiatives. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors at NxStage Medical, Inc. (NXTM), a publicly traded manufacturer of home dialysis equipment and supplies, and a member of the Board of Directors at Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, a healthcare research and data analysis non-profit in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He serves on multiple scientific and public policy advisory boards, has been a consultant to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, legal and provider organizations since his retirement from CMS. Recently Dr. Straube has been a Visiting Professor at HarvardMedicalSchool, StanfordUniversity, the University of Utah, and other academic institutions . He has been named and/or nominated annually in the Top 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and/or the Top 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare Magazine from 2008 to 2011, and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, as well as from private sector organizations and institutions.
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