Trump picks White House adviser Overton to run FDA
If approved by the Senate, Heidi Overton will take over an FDA that has lost more than 3,000 staff, including division heads, over the past year.
President Donald Trump has selected White House policy aide Heidi Overton to serve as the next head of the Food and Drug Administration, according to a source familiar with the appointment. Overton, who is currently the deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, previously worked at the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank.
She has a medical background, receiving her doctorate from the University of New Mexico and training in general surgery at Johns Hopkins and clinical-investigation research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. If confirmed by the Senate, Overton's appointment comes months after former FDA chief Marty Makary resigned amid controversy surrounding the agency's handling of various decisions.
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