Stephen Hahn, MD, Nominated to be New FDA Commissioner

Stephen Hahn, MD

According to reports, Stephen Hahn, MD, is expected to be named the new commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration.

If confirmed, Hahn, who is chief medical executive and a professor in the department of radiation oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, will take over from acting commissioner Norman Sharpless, MD, who stepped in to run the agency following the resignation of Scott Gottlieb, MD, in April.

While Hahn has found much success at MD Anderson, this agency post would be his first significant interaction with policy, according to a report from The New York Times.

Notably, interim commissioner Sharpless will immediately return to his post as the director of the National Cancer Institute, while Brett Giroir, MD, an official with the Department of Health and Human Services, will step in as interim until Hahn is confirmed.

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