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Drug Safety

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Dr. David Gortler is a pharmacologist, pharmacist, research scientist and a former member of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Senior Executive Leadership Team who served as senior advisor to the FDA Commissioner on matters of: FDA regulatory affairs, drug safety and FDA science policy.

He is a former Yale University and Georgetown University didactic professor of pharmacology and biotechnology, with over a decade of academic pedagogy and bench research, as part of his two decades of experience in drug development.

He has previously served as an FDA medical officer/senior medical analyst, and was personally in charge of approving new drugs and labeling changes within the FDA’s Center of Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Prior to that, Dr. Gortler served as an investigational medicine research scientist and clinical trial principal lead at Pfizer Inc.

Education & Licenses

PharmD, PhD, FCCP