Califf Hires New US FDA Senior Advisor, But Duties Seem Vague

As a senior advisor for chronic disease, Haider Warraich will help shape policy and product development in several areas, but the FDA provided few details on the cardiologist’s new duties.

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New FDA senior advisor Haider Warraich's pain expertise may be useful in the agency's fight against opioid abuse. • Source: Shutterstock

Haider Warraich, a cardiologist and author, has been named a Senior Advisor for Chronic Disease to the US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, although the duties of his new position seem somewhat unclear.

Warraich, an attending cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, wrote in...

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