CDRH has hired a public health expert with extensive government and international experience but little background in medical device regulation to oversee its effort to rebuild U.S. post-market device surveillance into a more nationalized, cohesive system.
Gregory Pappas was appointed associate director for National Device Surveillance, a newly established title within CDRH's Office of Surveillance and Biometrics (OSB), on Jan. 26. Pappas, an epidemiologist, was formally...