Meet David Dorsey, J.D., Acting Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning

David Dorsey is acting associate commissioner for policy and planning at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He leads the Office of Policy and Planning in serving as FDA’s focal point for the development, coordination, oversight, and processing of regulations, guidances, and other policy documents conducting economic analyses, program evaluations, and special studies directing overall FDA strategic, performance, and business process planning planning, organizing, and carrying out budgeting in support of the nationwide public health protection programs administered by FDA Mr. Dorsey graduated from Yale Law School in 1991. He has a masters from Princeton University and a B.A. from Haverford College.

His long experience related to food and drug regulation includes serving in the following positions:

• senior counselor to the commissioner of food and drugs, April through August 2009
• detailee on Senator Edward Kennedy's staff on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, covering FDA matters, January 2001 to April 2009
• attorney in FDA’s Office of Chief Counsel, focusing on food labeling, dietary supplements, medical devices, and tobacco regulation from June 1995 to January 2001