John Poelman is a Senior Director at Leavitt Partners, where he helps clients enter new markets, enhance the value of their products, navigate dynamic regulatory and reimbursement systems and improve health conditions around the world.

Most recently Mr. Poelman served as a Health Policy Analyst at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) where he focused on physician self-referral laws, health care financing reform, quality improvement initiatives, and medical malpractice reform. He also served as the Logistics Director for the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, assisting in the council’s efforts to coordinate comparative effectiveness research among all federal agencies, as directed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Mr. Poelman also worked as Program Analyst for the Value-Driven Healthcare Initiative, which aimed to improve the connectivity of America’s health information systems, encourage the measurement and availability of quality and price information, and enhance incentives for all healthcare stakeholders to seek high-quality, competitively-priced health care.

Mr. Poelman earned a master’s degree in public health with an emphasis in health policy from The George Washington University. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah where he served as the Student Body Vice President and spearheaded a student health insurance reform initiative that continues today.