Stephanie Carlton, appointed by President Trump to be CMS Deputy Administrator and Chief of Staff, is a health care leader with unique experience across the dimensions of the U.S. health care economy—business, policy, higher education, and clinical.  As Acting CMS Administrator until Dr. Mehmet Oz was confirmed by the Senate, Stephanie led the Agency through the early days of working with DOGE, implementing Executive Orders, and running the $1.7T organization.  When a Partner at McKinsey & Company, Carlton was a leader in McKinsey's SHaPE Practice with a deep focus on innovation and strategy and led McKinsey’s Center for US Health System Reform. She also co-founded a place-based transformation with 20 community leaders in Texas to improve holistic health outcomes. Prior to McKinsey, she led Medicare Advantage and Medicaid issues on the US Senate Finance Committee (Republican staff) and worked as a labor & delivery nurse at Georgetown University Hospital. Carlton has guest lectured at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, served as a fall 2022 resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, and was on the business school faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. She has served on the boards of the Health Care Cost Institute, Ignite Health Foundation, and the University of Texas McCombs Alumni Association.