Stephen Ostroff

Stephen Ostroff
Commissioner of Food and Drugs
Acting
In office
April 1, 2015  February 21, 2016
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Margaret Hamburg
Succeeded by Robert Califf
Personal details
Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania

Stephen Ostroff is an American physician. He has served as Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since April 2015.[1]

Biography

Ostroff is a 1981 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania of Medicine. He completed residencies in internal medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and in preventive medicine at Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He worked at the CDC, the US Public Heath Service, and at the Bureau of Epidemiology of Pennsylvania. In 2013, Ostroff joined the FDA as chief medical officer in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and senior public health advisor to FDA’s Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine and was promoted to chief scientist in 2014.[2]

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Political offices
Preceded by
Margaret Hamburg
Commissioner of Food and Drugs
Acting

2015–2016
Succeeded by
Robert Califf
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