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Former FDA commissioner named as Institute of Medicine foreign secretary

pharmafile | April 9, 2015 | Appointment | Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development Dr Margaret Hamburg, FDA, IOM, Institute of Medicine, Margaret Hamburg 

Former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration Margaret Hamburg has been appointed as the next foreign secretary of the Institute of Medicine – the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences. 

In this part-time position, Hamburg will serve as a senior adviser on international matters to the IOM president and council and as liaison to foreign academies of medicine and science. 

Her term began on 6 April and is effective through to the end of June 2019, and follows the service over the past eight and a half years in this role of Jo Ivey Boufford, president of the New York Academy of Medicine.

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Hamburg was appointed commissioner of the FDA in May 2009, the second woman to serve in this position. Her past roles have also included senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative; assistant secretary for policy and evaluation in the US Department of Health and Human Services; and commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

IOM president Victor Dzau says: “[Margaret’s] experience and interests equip her superbly for the role of foreign secretary, and I look forward to working with her to expand IOM’s global leadership.”

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