Michael Calhoun, JD
Chief Operating Officer/Senior Project Manager
Michael Calhoun is Chief Operating Officer/Senior Project Manager of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation. He has over 16 years experience in the healthcare industry including roles as a consultant, senior hospital executive, and senior federal government policy.
In his consulting capacity, Mr. Calhoun has been an adviser to the Division on AIDS, within the U.S. National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. In that role, he led an independent working group charged by the Director to help improve the international clinical trials program of the Division on AIDS and later assisted in implementing reforms and redesigns to improve the effectiveness of the agency’s US$ 350+ million AIDS clinical research program. Mr. Calhoun’s consulting experience also includes strategy consulting for large healthcare providers, academic medical centers, medical schools, and foreign healthcare organizations. He has also been active in facilitating the strategic use of information technology for large hospital systems and medical schools.
His senior hospital executive role includes serving as Vice President for Strategic Planning and Marketing for the Stanford Hospital and Clinics at Stanford University. In that role, Mr. Calhoun’s responsibilities included strategic and business planning, marketing, communications, government relations, and the hospital’s International Medical Service.
From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Calhoun was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which was, during his tenure, the largest of the Executive departments, having a budget of over $625 billion and approximately 120,000 employees. He acted as chief operating officer and was the principal policy adviser to Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, MD on social services and on health policy — including the Bush Administration’s healthcare reform plan and issues involving Medicare, Medicaid, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control. He was also the Secretary’s liaison to the White House. In 1991, Mr. Calhoun was instrumental in the planning and management of the first official Presidential Cabinet level visit to Africa to explore health issues. The focus of the trip was the emerging impact of the AIDS epidemic on children.
Mr. Calhoun has a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and received his BA degree from Princeton University. He is on the Board of Directors of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.