CDRH director transition
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Center for Devices and Radiological Health Director Bruce Burlington holds "get acquainted" meetings with industry reps during the week of Feb. 22, his first week as CDRH chief. Among the visitors received by Burlington were Alan Magazine, president of the Health Industry Manufacturers Association; Robert Britain, director of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association's diagnostic imaging and therapy systems division; and Larry Pilot, an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of McKenna & Cuneo who represents the Medical Device Manufacturers Association. Burlington also conferred with FDA Commissioner David Kessler and attorney Paul Rogers of Washington, D.C. firm Hogan & Hartson. When serving as a Democratic House member from Florida, Rogers drafted the 1976 medical device law....
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