Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization 
Consonance Capital Partners
Location Washington, District of Columbia, United States Regions Washington DC Metro Area, Southern US Gender Female
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DeParle has more than 25 years of experience in the health care arena, and is widely considered to be one of the nation’s leading experts in health care policy, management and financing. She is currently a Partner at Consonance Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on investing in small and mid-size health care companies.
From
March 2009 to January 2013, DeParle served in the White House, first as Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform, and later as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. In addition, from 1993 to 2000, DeParle served as the Associate Director for Health and Personnel for the White House Office of Management and Budget, and later as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (then known as the Health Care Financing Administration).
From 2001 to March 2009, DeParle served as a Senior Advisor with JPMorgan Partners and as a Managing Director of its successor entity, CCMP Capital, L.L.C., focusing on private equity investments in health care companies. During this period DeParle served on the boards of several health care companies, including Medco Health Solutions, Inc., Boston Scientific Corporation, DaVita Inc., Cerner Corporation, CareMore Health Plan and Legacy Hospital Partners.
She also served on the Board of Trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest philanthropy in the United States devoted solely to improving the health and health care of all Americans.
DeParle has served as a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School and an adjunct professor at Penn’s Wharton School, and in 2013 she was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a lecturer at Harvard Law School.
