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Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., M.P.H., is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Aetna Inc., one of the nation's leading health care and related benefits organizations. Dr. Brennan reports to Ronald A. Williams, Aetna Chairman, CEO and President.
In this role, Dr. Brennan directs Aetna’s National Quality Management activities and is responsible for Aetna’s major public health initiatives, which include racial and ethnic equality, genomics, next generation consumer-driven health care, the Aetna Compassionate CareSM Program and integrated depression management. He also provides oversight for the development of Aetna's clinical policies, as well as Aetna's full range of clinical operations, disease management programs and patient management services.
Prior to joining Aetna, Dr. Brennan served as president and CEO of Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization from 2000-2006. Prior to these responsibilities, Dr. Brennan served as director of quality measurement and improvement at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
In these roles at Brigham and Women's, he was responsible for managed care contract negotiations, designing both primary care and specialty medical management and incentive programs, and oversaw the merger of seven specialty physician foundations and eight hospital departments into a single physician organization. Dr. Brennan also served as a practicing internist at Brigham and Women's Hospital until 2006.
In his academic work, he has served as professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School since 1995, and professor of law and public health at Harvard School of Public Health since 1992. Since 1987, he has published 230 peer-reviewed papers and four books. He is also a frequent presenter on health care policy, ethics and law.
Dr. Brennan received his M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Yale Medical School, his J.D. degree from Yale Law School, and his M.A. degree from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. | 