Trump’s US FDA Reforms Need Center Director, Staff Support To Succeed, Former Leaders Say

Former FDA commissioners Mark McClellan and Scott Gottlieb, former acting commissioner Janet Woodcock and current commissioner Robert Califf offered advice on successfully implementing reforms and preventing a mass exodus of FDA employees as inklings emerge that the Trump team is already engaged on this front.

CERSI Panel Discussion
The FDA's current commissioner and former leaders offered some advice for the incoming Trump administration at the 12 January CERSI meeting. (Screenshot of Internet Broadcast)

The incoming Trump administration’s plans for new US Food and Drug Administration initiatives are more likely to succeed if they flow from ideas generated by agency staff and are supported by the center directors, current and former agency leaders said.

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