Scott W. Atlas

SCOTT W. ATLAS, MD is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and a founding fellow at Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom. Dr. Atlas investigates the impact of government and the private sector on access, quality, and pricing in health care, global trends in health care innovation, and key economic issues related to the future of technology-based medical advances. He is a frequent policy advisor to policymakers and government officials in the United States and in other countries. He has served as Senior Advisor for Health Care to several numerous candidates for President, as well as having counselled members of the U.S. Congress on health care, testified before Congress, and briefed directors of key federal agencies. From July to December 2020, he served as a Special Advisor to the President and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. He is the author, most recently, of A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America.