Bio

Tom Kraus, J.D., serves as the Vice President of Government Relations for ASHP. ASHP represents pharmacists who serve as patient care providers in hospitals, health systems, ambulatory clinics and other health care settings spanning the full spectrum of medication use. Kraus previously served as the Deputy Staff Director of Health on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions under Sens. Edward Kennedy and Tom Harkin, where he was instrumental in the passage of key legislation, including Food and Drug Administration drug and food safety reforms and user fee legislation, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and the Affordable Care Act.

Following his time on Capitol Hill, he joined the FDA, where he served as Chief of Staff and Associate FDA Commissioner for Legislation. In this role, he was a top adviser to the FDA Commissioner, a key leader among FDA’s over 14,000 employees and the FDA’s main liaison and advocate to Congress. Kraus has also served as a health policy, management and life sciences senior executive for Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, Avalere Health and, most recently, the Boston Consulting Group. In these roles, he engaged with virtually every major component of U.S. health care, including agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, state agencies, the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance companies and many other companies and agencies.

Kraus earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Michigan, a Master of Health Science in Health Finance and Management from Johns Hopkins University and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.