FDA Reorganizes at the Top, Taps Ex-Dartmouth Dean for Post

FDA Reorganizes at the Top, Taps Ex-Dartmouth Dean for Post (Wall Street Journal)
WASHINGTON—The Food and Drug Administration, whose relations with medical companies have been strained of late, named a former senior drug-company official and Dartmouth Medical School dean as its new deputy commissioner overseeing much of the agency's operations.
Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg selected Stephen P. Spielberg to the new position of Deputy Commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco. The appointment was part of a reorganization at the top of the nation's leading medical- and food-safety agency....