Assistant Director for Management
Barclay P. Butler, Ph.D., MBA, serves as the Assistant Director for Management (AD-M) for the Defense Health Agency (DHA) as a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES). As the AD-M, Butler is responsible for leading the DHA in matters pertaining to personnel, manpower, acquisition, contracting, program management, analytics, strategic planning, education and training, and research and development, serving the needs of primary, secondary, and tertiary care medical centers, hospitals, and ambulatory care clinics, within the Military Health System (MHS).
Prior to this assignment, Butler was the interim Assistant Director for Healthcare Administration (AD-HCA) for the DHA responsible for strategy and execution in supporting the delivery of care to the beneficiaries of the MHS through the DHA’s integrated system of readiness and health where he led the DHA in the domains of financial operations, medical affairs, health care operations, and inform