News & Events
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Public Calendar for Week of Oct. 22-26, 2007
This public calendar is issued by the Food and Drug Administration. It lists significant meetings held by designated FDA policy makers with persons outside the executive branch of the Federal Government.
| FDA Official and Title | Date | Location | Other FDA Participants | Non-FDA Participants | Subject |
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| Andrew von Eschenbach, Commissioner, Food and Drugs | 10/22/07 | Washington, DC | Timothy Cote, Henry Startzman, Debra Lewis, Tan Nguyen, Linda Ulrich, James Bona, Stephanie Donahoe | Abbey Myers, Diane Dorman, Jean Campbell (The National Organization for Rare Disorders) | Speech at the Retirement Gala for Abbey Meyers, President, The National Organization for Rare Disorders |
| Andrew von Eschenbach, Commissioner, Food and Drugs | 10/22/07 | Silver Spring, MD | Janet Woodcock, Nakissa Sandrieh, Jan Simak, Linda Katz, Subhas Malghan, Stephen Fleischer, James Hungerford, Norris Alderson | John Small (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Scott McNeil (National Cancer Institute), Nigel Walker (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) | Speech at the 2007 FDA Science Symposium Series |
| Andrew von Eschenbach, Commissioner, Food and Drugs | 10/22/07 | New Haven, CT | N/A | U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro, Gary Kelloff (National Cancer Institute), Edward Chu, Daniel DiMaio, Susan Mayne (Yale Cancer Center), Louis Denis (Pfizer Oncology), Barbara Cooney Oliver (Y-ME Connecticut Affiliate) | Speech at the Friends of Cancer Research Town Hall Meeting |
| Andrew von Eschenbach, Commissioner, Food and Drugs | 10/22/07 | Washington, DC | Stephen Mason | U.S. Congressman Michael Burgess | Food Import Safety Bill, H.R. 3967 |
| Andrew von Eschenbach, Commissioner, Food and Drugs | 10/24/07 | Washington, DC | Stephen Mason, Kristy Moran | Robert Coughlin, Stephen Mulloney, John Lacey, Nick Littlefield (Massachusetts Biotechnology Council) | Meet and greet new president of Massachusetts Biotechnology Council |
| Andrew von Eschenbach, Commissioner, Food and Drugs | 10/24/07 | Washington, DC | Susan Winckler, Stephen Mason | U.S. Senator Michael Enzi | Tobacco Bill S.1834 |
| Andrew von Eschenbach, Commissioner, Food and Drugs | 10/25/07 | Washington, DC | Susan Winckler, Larry Bachorik, Stephen Mason, Joseph Grogan, Indya Mungo | Richard Clark, Peter Honig, Steven Kelmar (Merck) | Trust and transparency in pharmaceutical industry |
| Andrew von Eschenbach, Commissioner, Food and Drugs | 10/25/07 | Washington, DC | Susan Winckler, LaJuana Caldwell | Kevin Sharav, David Beier (Amgen) | Meet and greet
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| Andrew von Eschenbach, Commissioner, Food and Drugs | 10/26/07 | Houston, TX | N/A | U.S. Representative Kevin Brady, David Nilasena (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), Rick Slemaker (National Health Forum) | Speech at the National Health Forum 2007 |
| John Dyer, Deputy Commissioner for Operations and Chief Operating Officer | 10/22/07 through 10/26/07 | N/A | N/A | N/A | No significant meetings |
| Murray Lumpkin, Deputy Commissioner for International and Special Programs | 10/23/07 | Canberra, Australia | N/A | Industry, academia, Therapeutic Goods Administration staff and others | Medicines Australia Biotechnology Industry Group (MABIG) Biologic Seminar (US Experience with Challenges of Biological Products) |
| Randall Lutter, Deputy Commissioner for Policy | 10/22/07 through 10/26/07 | N/A | N/A | N/A | No significant meetings |
| Janet Woodcock, Deputy Commissioner for Scientific and Medical Programs, Chief Medical Officer and Acting Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | 10/24/07 | Boston, MA | N/A | Joseph Newhouse (Harvard University), David Nexon (Advanced Medical Technology Assoc.), Jack Schuler (Ventana Medical Systems), Alison Taunton-Rigby (RiboNovix) | Innovations in U.S. Health Policy |
| Margaret Glavin, Associate Commissioner, Office of Regulatory Affairs | 10/23/07 | Rockville, MD | Steve Solomon | Rachel Goldberg (Lesher & Russell, Inc.) | Food related issues |
| Jesse Goodman, Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research | 10/22/07 through 10/26/07 | N/A | N/A | N/A | No significant meetings |
| Daniel Schultz, Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health | 10/24/07 | Boston, MA | Les Weinstein, Healther Rosecrans, Marilyn Flack, Gail Costello, Alberto Gutierrez, Michael Marcarelli, Megan Dierks | Grassroots conference with various industry representatives | Medical device issues |
| Daniel Schultz, Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health | 10/26/07 | Los Angeles, CA | none | USC Body Computing conference | Speech on networked medical devices |
| Robert Brackett, Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition | 10/22/07 through 10/26/07 | N/A | N/A | N/A | No significant meetings |
| Stephen Sundlof, Director, Center for Veterinary Medicine | 10/24/07 | Rockville, MD | N/A | Alex Mathews (Animal Health Institute) | Quarterly meeting |
| William Slikker, Director, National Center for Toxicological Research | 10/23/07 | Little Rock, AR | N/A | State and educational professionals | Arkansas Biosciences Institute Fall Research Symposium |
| William Slikker, Director, National Center for Toxicological Research | 10/23/07 | Little Rock, AR | Merle Paule, John Bowyer, Sherry Ferguson, Tucker Patterson | Other members of the Arkansas Chapter of Society for Neuroscience | Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience |
| William Slikker, Director, National Center for Toxicological Research | 10/25/07 | Raleigh, NC | Weida Tong, Lei Guo, Nan Mei | Scientists with an interest in bioinformatics, toxicogenomics and environmental genomics | First international conference on Toxicogenomics Integrated with Environmental Sciences |
| William Slikker, Director, National Center for Toxicological Research | 10/26/07 | Research Triangle Park, NC | N/A | John Bucher (National Toxicology Program/NIEHS) | To strengthen our ongoing collaborative scientific efforts and discuss strategy for future interactions |
| William Slikker, Director, National Center for Toxicological Research | 10/26/07 | Research Triangle Park, NC | N/A | Sam Wilson (NIEHS) | To strengthen our ongoing collaborative scientific efforts and discuss strategy for future interactions |
| William Slikker, Director, National Center for Toxicological Research | 10/26/07 | Research Triangle Park, NC | N/A | Hal Zenick (National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory) | To strengthen our ongoing collaborative scientific efforts and discuss strategy for future interactions |
| Gerald Masoudi, Chief Counsel | 10/22/07 through 10/26/07 | N/A | N/A | N/A | No significant meetings |
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