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Dr Scott Gottlieb, the recently resigned Deputy Commissioner of the FDA, is elected to the MedAvante Board of Directors
5/20/2008 1:32:00 PM
Scott Gottlieb, MD
Board of Directors
Dr. Scott Gottlieb is the former Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and senior official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is presently a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
A practicing physician, from 2005-2007, Dr. Gottlieb served as FDA Deputy Commissioner and before that, from 2003-2004, as a senior advisor to FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan and as the FDA’s Director of Medical Policy Development. He left FDA in the spring of 2004 to work on implementation of the new Medicare Drug Benefit as a Senior Adviser to the Administrator of Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Dr. Gottlieb is widely quoted on issues of health policy, medical technology, and on seeking improvements in the public health through innovation in technology, medical practice and healthcare delivery. He has been at the nexus of much of the major health policy making over the last four years in Washington.
Dr. Gottlieb is the recipient of number medical association awards and the author of more than 300 articles that have appeared in leading medical journals as well as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Forbes Magazine. Dr. Gottlieb has held editorial positions on the British Medical Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Association and appears regularly as a guest commentator on the cable financial news channel CNBC.
A noted authority on medical technology and pathways to successful innovation and implementation of new medical products, Dr. Gottlieb has testified on such matters before the Senate, House of Representatives, and members of the Japanese Diet. The Wall Street Journal identified him as a “forward thinker” on health policy and drug development and Congressional Quarterly as an “original thinker with a strong libertarian streak.”
Dr. Gottlieb is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and continues to practice medicine as a medical intensivist in a busy urban hospital.
