Tracey Forfa `81, named as Director of the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine

Tracey Forfa, J.D., Named as Director of the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) – Forfa has been “… acting in the position since December 2022, when previous director Steven M. Solomon, DVM, MPH, retired from Federal service. She has been with CVM since 2002 and was appointed the Deputy Center Director in 2008. She also previously served as Acting Director in 2016 … Forfa is the first non-veterinarian to hold the CVM directorship. However, as recently determined by Commissioner Califf, when the center director is not a veterinarian, the agency soon will name a Chief Veterinary Officer to advise on a wide variety of veterinary issues … Forfa earned her bachelor’s degree from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio and her law degree from the University of Baltimore in Maryland …”

Web site: Source: February 17, 2023 FDA CVM Update, titled “Tracey Forfa Announced as New Director of FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine”, posted at
http://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/cvm-updates/tracey-forfa-announced-new-director-fdas-center-veterinary-medicine

A brief biography of Tracey H. Forfa is posted at
http://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/tracey-forfa

Posted in on March 13, 2023.