David Gortler is a pharmacologist, pharmacist, and an FDA and health care policy scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. He was a professor of pharmacology and biotechnology at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he also served at Yale’s Bioethics Center. He was an FDA Medical Officer who was later appointed by the White House to serve on the FDA’s senior executive leadership team as senior advisor to the FDA commissioner for drug safety, FDA science policy, and FDA regulatory affairs.
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Last month, dermatologists and pharmacists around the U.S. discovered they could no longer prescribe or dispense isotretinoin, an important dermatological medication, after the Food and… Read More
