The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reorganized its top
management structure and hired former Dartmouth Medical School Dean
Stephen Spielberg as commissioner for medical products and tobacco, a
new position. FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg informed agency staff in
a letter on Wednesday afternoon. The move is intended to better
regulate rapidly changing and increasingly complex products and
industries. “The new organizational alignments more accurately reflect
the agency's responsibilities, subject matter expertise and mandates in
an ever more complex world, where products and services do not fit into a
single category,” Hamburg wrote. In addition, Deborah Autor, currently
director of the Office of Compliance within the Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research, has been promoted to deputy commissioner for
global regulatory operations and policy.
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