In Brief: Former FDA Commissioner Frank Young
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Former FDA Commissioner Frank Young: Retires from position as director of HHS' Office of Emergency Preparedness and National Disaster Assistance on July 31, after three years at that post. Young was FDA commissioner from 1984 to 1989 and HHS deputy assistant secretary for Health, Science and the Environment from late 1989 to 1993. Young will now become the new education director at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Potomac, Maryland...
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