FDA names Joseph Levitt new CFSAN director; Fred Shank to ambassadorial role.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA NEW CFSAN DIRECTOR LEVITT HAS NLEA BACKGROUND to go with his center management experience as deputy director of FDA's Center for Devices & Radiological Health. Effective Feb. 2, Joseph Levitt will become the new director of the Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, succeeding Fred Shank, PhD, who has served in that position for more than 10 years.
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CFSAN
Twelve-year FDA veteran Susan Alpert, MD/PhD, assumes role of CFSAN Director for Food Safety, effective Oct. 25. Since 1993, Alpert has served as director of the Center for Devices & Radiological Health Office of Device Evaluation, overseeing the agency review of all medical devices. A pediatrician with a background in infectious diseases and microbiology, she previously worked as a supervisory medical officer in CDER. She succeeds Morris Potter, who is leaving CFSAN to become executive director of the International Life Sciences Institute and ILSI North America. In her new role, Alpert will report directly to CFSAN Director Joseph Levitt, who also came over from CDRH in February 1998 (1"The Tan Sheet" Jan. 19, 1998, p. 14)
CFSAN
Twelve-year FDA veteran Susan Alpert, MD/PhD, assumes role of CFSAN Director for Food Safety, effective Oct. 25. Since 1993, Alpert has served as director of the Center for Devices & Radiological Health Office of Device Evaluation, overseeing the agency review of all medical devices. A pediatrician with a background in infectious diseases and microbiology, she previously worked as a supervisory medical officer in CDER. She succeeds Morris Potter, who is leaving CFSAN to become executive director of the International Life Sciences Institute and ILSI North America. In her new role, Alpert will report directly to CFSAN Director Joseph Levitt, who also came over from CDRH in February 1998 (1"The Tan Sheet" Jan. 19, 1998, p. 14)
CFSAN
Twelve-year FDA veteran Susan Alpert, MD/PhD, assumes role of CFSAN Director for Food Safety, effective Oct. 25. Since 1993, Alpert has served as director of the Center for Devices & Radiological Health Office of Device Evaluation, overseeing the agency review of all medical devices. A pediatrician with a background in infectious diseases and microbiology, she previously worked as a supervisory medical officer in CDER. She succeeds Morris Potter, who is leaving CFSAN to become executive director of the International Life Sciences Institute and ILSI North America. In her new role, Alpert will report directly to CFSAN Director Joseph Levitt, who also came over from CDRH in February 1998 (1"The Tan Sheet" Jan. 19, 1998, p. 14)