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Acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Lester M. Crawford today announced that he has selected Daniel G. Schultz, M.D., to lead the agency’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). In that capacity, Dr. Schultz will be responsible for FDA’s review of all medical devices, as well as radiation-emitting products such as magnetic resonance imaging equipment and x-ray machines. He will also oversee the further implementation of the Medical Devices User Fee Act of "2002", which authorizes FDA to collect user fees for its review of medical device marketing application and which sets performance goals for those reviews.
"Dan Schultz brings to our medical device program the ideal combination of skills, experience, and temperament to ensure that FDA’s medical device program is second to none,” said Dr. Crawford. “He is just the man to usher in the new era of medical device user fees, and to see to it that safe and effective medical devices continue to reach patients who need them."
Dr. Schultz joined FDA in April 1994 as a medical officer in the General Surgery Branch of CDRH. He went on to become chief medical officer in the Division of Reproductive, Abdominal, and Radiological Devices. He later served as division director, and then as Deputy Director and Director of the Office of Device Evaluation in CDRH.
Dr. Schultz initially entered the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service in July 1975 and served a three-year assignment as a general medical officer and clinical director of the Tuba City Indian Hospital on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. He then completed a general surgical residency at the Public Health Service Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. In October 1981, Dr. Schultz moved to Denver, where he did a fellowship in pediatric surgery and completed his general surgery training. He is board certified in general surgery and family practice and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
A native of New York City, Dr. Schultz graduated from the City College of
New York with a B.A. in political science. He received an M.D. from the
University of Pittsburgh in 1974 and completed a combined internship in
pediatrics and medicine at the University of New Mexico.
Dr. Schulz has been Acting Director of CDRH since April 1, when he replaced
former center director Dr. David Feigal, who resigned from FDA and has accepted
a position in the private sector.
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