ARTICLE SUMMARY:
In this week’s Pathways Picks: CDRH posts new job openings and managers make a public push; UK MHRA hires a former top FDA digital health official; MDUFA VI negotiations; FDA digital health updates; CMS colorectal cancer screening coverage; WISeR model critiques; Malaysia innovation pathway, and more global medtech policy updates.
Hiring at the Agencies
FDA seeks to refill vacancies, as one recent departee joins UK MHRA:
CDRH seeks to refill vacancies
FDA device center managers took to LinkedIn last week urging followers to apply to newly posted job openings at CDRH. Three CDRH positions—Biomedical Engineer, Physician, and Statistician—were added to USAJobs, the federal government job site, on March 5. The submission period closes today, March 11.
The listings are intended to help fill multiple vacancies for reviewers and subject matter experts within different CDRH offices. The center “is looking for scientific reviewers and SMEs including engineers, biologists, chemists, and physicians to help evaluate emerging medical devices and address medical device safety issues,” Juliane Lessard, director of the Division of Drug Delivery, General Hospital Devices, and Human Factors, wrote on LinkedIn, mirroring posts from numerous other CDRH managers last week in an apparent coordinated push by the agency. “We have several amazing teams looking for additions to make a public health impact,” multiple posts noted.
Questions over staffing levels and hiring plans have been front and center during ongoing user fee reauthorization negotiations, particularly in the context of substantial turnover last year as a result of Trump administration efforts to reduce the size of the federal government.
