Aaron McKethan PhD currently serves as Program Director for the Beacon Communities Program in the Office of the national Coordinator for Health Technology at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Previously, he served as Research Director at the Brookings Institution's Engleberg Center for Health Care Reform, where he managed research and implementation projects focused on health IT, provider payment, quality improvement and delivery system reform at the state and regional level. He also led several projects related to Medicare and Medicaid payment policy, quality improvement demonstrations and national health reform. McKethan was previously a consultant at the Lewin Group, where he focused primarily on state health reform, Medicaid financing issues and delivery system reform. He is currently a health policy lecturer at the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University Medical Center. He received his PhD in Public Policy Analysis from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.