Dx Departure: US FDA's Diagnostics Chief Gutierrez Steps Down

Alberto Gutierrez left FDA and government this week in a planned retirement. He was director of the office that oversees pre- and post-market programs for in vitro diagnostics and radiology devices, an office where several holes already exist in top management slots.

Diagnostics and radiology device director Alberto Gutierrez left US FDA this week after 25 years at the agency, creating another opening at the top of a diagnostics office that already has multiple vacancies in its management ranks.

Gutierrez led FDA diagnostics policy during a period of substantial reassessment and reform as the agency grappled with the rapidly evolving developments in personalized medicine, genomics and the underlying structure of the clinical laboratory market

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