  Scott Gottlieb, MD, deputy commissioner for medical and  scientific affairs at the US Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, MD, 

), will leave the agency effective  January 16, 2007. He will return to the American Enterprise Institute, a  Washington-based think tank, where he as previously fellow prior to joining  FDA. Gottlieb joined FDA as deputy commissioner in July 2005. Since then he has  worked on a number of significant policy initiatives including efforts to  improve the advisory committee process and to make the agency’s approaches  regarding communication of risk information to the pubic more effective. 

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Scott Gottlieb, MD, deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs at the US Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, MD, www.fda.org), will leave the agency effective January 16, 2007.