Full Name
Dr. Rodney Whitlock
Title
Vice President
Organization
McDermott+Consulting
Speaker Bio
Dr. Rodney Whitlock is an accomplished health care advisor with more than two decades on the Hill where he specialized in rural health, the health care safety net and disability policy. While working in Congress, Rodney served as former US Representative Charlie Norwood’s (R-GA) health policy director where he managed the Patients’ Bill of Rights (S.1890), among other notable health policy matters. Rodney then went on to serve Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in the Senate. He first joined the Senate Finance Committee Staff as a health policy advisor to Chairman Grassley, and ultimately joined the Senator’s personal office as health policy director. For the last 20 years, Rodney has been an adjunct faculty member at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management, and the Graduate School of Political Management’s Department of Legislative Affairs.
Dr. Rodney Whitlock