The US Food and Drug Administration’s Brendan O’Leary was passionate about technology from an early age.
“I first started learning how to program as a kid,” said O’Leary, the new acting director of the agency’s
Q&A: Meet DHCOE Acting Chief Brendan O’Leary, FDA’s New Digital Health Guru
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In this revealing interview, the new acting director of the US FDA’s Digital Health Center of Excellence talks about his new role at the DHCOE, the big shoes he’ll have to fill now that former center head Bakul Patel is gone, the need for new regulatory frameworks for digital health – and how he helped repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
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