Soeren Mattke (MD, DSc) is a Senior Scientist at USC and the Director of the Center for Improving Chronic Illness Care. Dr. Mattke is an expert in innovations to prevent, diagnose and manage chronic disease via better drugs, devices and technologies, improved delivery models and value-based payment, with over 150 published journal articles and technical reports. He was the senior author of two recent studies to analyze
the preparedness of the healthcare systems of the U.S. and six EU countries to rapidly move a disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease from approval into wide clinical use. This work builds on his experience at the OECD Health Policy Unit in comparative health system analysis and benchmarking.

Prior to joining USC, Dr. Mattke led RAND Health’s private sector practice and worked at the OECD in Paris, in the healthcare practice of Bain & Company in Boston, at Abt Associates, a policy consulting firm in Cambridge, MA, and at Harvard University. He trained as an internist and cardiologist at the University of Munich and got his doctoral degree in health policy at Harvard.