Tom Price is a physician, a former US Representative and served as the 23rd Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Trump. Having served at both the front line of health care provision as a surgeon and at the highest levels of government, he is one of the United States’ leading health care policy experts.

Price trained in medicine at the University of Michigan and completed his residency at Atlanta’s Emory University. He entered private practice, later becoming an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery, and held memberships with the American Medical Association and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. In 1996, he ran for election to the Georgia Senate, and would go on to win four elections to the state legislature. He later became minority whip and, after his party took control of the Senate, he became the first Republican to be elected majority leader. In 2004, he turned his attention to the national stage, and made a successful bid to represent Georgia’s 6th congressional district in the US House of Representatives. He would go on to serve in the House for 12 years, was the sponsor of the Empowering Patients First Act, and served on the Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Ways and Means.

In 2016, Price was nominated to the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services by then President-elect Donald Trump, and was confirmed in the Senate. A member of the President’s Cabinet, Price advised the President on health, income security and welfare matters, and had responsibility for overseeing 11 agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the Center for Disease Control. Today, he is an authority on health policy and speaks about the challenges and opportunities facing the health care system.