Washington: Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, has been picked to lead the Food and Drug Administration, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
As a medical doctor and deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council who has worked on several of Trump\u2019s second-term health initiatives, Overton has become a trusted figure in the administration and a champion of the president\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n
Yet any new FDA commissioner will have to balance a raft of competing priorities, between Trump\u2019s fixations, the anti-regulatory interests of traditional Republicans and the anti-corporate posture of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n
Those challenges dogged the tenure of the previous FDA head, Dr. Marty Makary, who resigned in May, leaving behind unfinished projects including work on ultra-processed foods, antidepressants and COVID-19 shots.<\/p>\n
Referring to a \u201cDr. Heidi\u201d in a Truth Social post, Trump called Overton a smart and respected \u201crockstar\u201d who would deliver on his priorities of faster cures, innovation, lower drug prices and more wins for Health Secretary Robert F.<\/p>\n
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