FDA Division of Medical Imaging, Surgical and Dental Drugs
Executive Summary
Director of the division, John Palmer, MD, will retire from FDA on May 3. Palmer became director of the Oncology and Radiopharmaceutical Drugs Division in 1983. The division, reorganized in 1989, became the Medical Imaging, Surgical and Dental Drugs Division. Palmer joined FDA as a reviewing medical officer in 1959 and held a number of staff and management posts in the drug review area.