Susan Alpert to Leave CDRH

FDA has announced that Susan Alpert Ph.D., M.D., is leaving the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) effective October 25. Alpert will leave her position as Director of the Office of Device Evaluation to become the Director for Food Safety in FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). Alpert has held that post since 1993, when she left her previous position as supervisory medical officer in FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

As Director of Food Safety, Alpert will provide leadership for the President's Food Safety Initiative. As the center's senior physician, she will also provide oversight for all medical and clinical aspects of food safety across the broad range of FDA's food safety responsibilities.

A graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, Alpert received her Ph.D. in medical microbiology from the New York University School of Medicine. She earned her M.D. at the University of Miami School of Medicine and trained in pediatrics at Montefiore Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her training in pediatric infectious disease at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., as part of a joint program with FDA.