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Kessler was the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from November 8, 1990, to February 28, 1997. He co-chaired the Biden-Harris transition’s COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021 and was the head of Operation Warp Speed , the U.S. government program to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines and ...
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Dr. Kessler announced his intention to step down in 1996, citing a desire to return to private life. He officially left his position February 28, 1997. He was subsequently named dean of Yale ...
Jan 15, 2021 · By Sheila Kaplan and Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Jan. 15, 2021. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has asked Dr. David Kessler, a former head of the Food and Drug Administration, to oversee the...
Jan 15, 2021 · Politics Jan 15, 2021 9:36 AM EST. WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden has picked a former Food and Drug commissioner to lead vaccine science in his drive to put 100 million shots into the...
Jan 13, 2023 · (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE) 6 min. David Kessler, an early adviser to President Biden on the coronavirus pandemic who emerged as a pivotal player in the administration’s efforts to vaccinate...
Nov 26, 1996 · PUBLISHED: November 26, 1996 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 18, 2021 at 9:41 p.m. Dr. David Kessler, the Food and Drug Administration’s energetic crusader against silicone breast implants,...
May 9, 2016 · Doctor David Kessler, who ran the FDA from 1990 to 1997, doesn't hold back when talking about the explosion in opioid use in the last two decades. "This has been one of the great mistakes of...