Steven Niedelman steps down
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Deputy Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Operations announces he will retire from FDA at the end of June to become Executive VP at Quintiles Consulting. Niedelman began his career at FDA in 1972 as a consumer safety officer. Before taking the ORA post in 2002, he served as acting director of the Office of Enforcement, where he started as deputy director in July 2001. Early this year, Niedelman was named to a team charged with prioritizing device center initiatives and overseeing the implementation of CDRH's postmarket transformation (1"The Gray Sheet" Jan. 23, 2006, p. 5)...
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