Keeping Up With “The Energizer Bunny”: US FDA Commissioner Gottlieb As A Boss

Three center directors agree that Gottlieb’s facility for public communications is a boon for FDA – and that the commissioner is appropriately hands-off when it comes to day-to-day decisions on scientific or policy issues.

FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb

US FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has been getting generally high marks from the agency’s external stakeholders, and it seems he is just as popular with some of the key managers who report to him.

Three FDA center directors – Janet Woodcock (Center for Drug Evaluation & Research), Peter Marks (Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research) and Richard Pazdur (Oncology Center of Excellence) – were asked to talk about the experience of working for

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