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Stephen Spielberg , Deputy Commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco , The U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Stephen P. Spielberg is Deputy Commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
A pediatrician and pharmacologist, Spielberg was most recently the Marion Merrell Dow Chair in Pediatric Pharmacogenomics, and Director of the Center for Personalized Medicine and Therapeutic Innovation at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.
Previously, he served as Dean of Dartmouth Medical School and Vice President for Health Affairs at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. From 1997 to 2003, Dr. Spielberg was Johnson & Johnson's Vice President for Pediatric Drug Development and, prior to that, was Executive Director at Merck & Co.'s Research Laboratories.
During that time, he was Chairman of the Pediatric Task Force of PhRMA, the drug industry's trade association. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Princeton University, and an M.D. and Ph.D. (Pharmacology) from the University of Chicago.
