Patrizia Cavazzoni

Patrizia Cavazzoni
Official FDA Portrait
Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research[1]
Incumbent
Assumed office April 12, 2021 Acting: May 2020 – April 2021
Preceded by	Janet Woodcock
Acting Principal Deputy Commissioner of Food and Drugs[2]
In office January 2019 – February 2019
Succeeded by	Amy Abernethy
Deputy Center Director for Operations of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
In office January 2018 – May 2020
Personal details
Education	McGill University (MD)[2]

Patrizia Cavazzoni is the director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Prior to this position she worked at Pfizer and had been a psychiatrist