FDA Announces Leadership Appointments at Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Tracy Beth Høeg, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). A physician and epidemiologist, Dr. Høeg was a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and practiced physical and interventional spine and sports medicine before joining the FDA as Senior Advisor for Clinical Sciences in the Office of the Commissioner and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).Dr. Høeg completed her Doctor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of...