Government
Former HHS chief lands in the private sector
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted March 28, 2005
Tommy Thompson, who served as Dept. of Health and Human Services secretary during President Bush's first term, has accepted new positions at a law firm and an accounting firm in Washington, D.C.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has taken on Thompson as a partner whose responsibilities will include helping to develop a health and life sciences practice. Deloitte & Touche USA has tapped him as a senior adviser and the independent chair of the company's developing Center for Health Care Management and Transformation. Thompson is expected to be involved in strategic decisions regarding clients but is not expected to actively lobby Congress, according to the firms' spokesmen.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/03/28/gvbf0328.htm.
