Margaret Hamburg

Margaret Hamburg
File:Margaret Hamburg official portrait.jpg
Born	(1955-07-12) July 12, 1955 Chicago, Illinois
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation	Foreign secretary, National Academy of Medicine
Known for	Commissioner of Food and Drugs, 2009-2015
Spouse(s)	Peter Fitzhugh Brown
Children	2

Margaret Ann Hamburg (born July 12, 1955, Chicago, Illinois) is an American physician and medical/public health administrator. She served as the 21st Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from May 2009 to March 2015.

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Margaret A. Hamburg at Spotlight Health, Aspen Ideas Festival, in 2015.

Hamburg graduated from Radcliffe College in 1977 and earned her M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She completed medical training at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. In 1994 she became one of the youngest people ever elected to the Institute of Medicine (IoM), the health and medicine branch of the National Academy of Sciences. In April 2015 she was appointed foreign secretary of the Institute of Medicine.

She has served as Vice President for Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She was nominated in March 2009 by President Barack Obama to become Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and was sworn in on May 22, 2009.

She has received numerous awards, among them the National Consumers League's Trumpeter Award in 2011 and the National Center for Health Research's 2011 Health Research Policy Hero Award. She is a distinguished senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She was appointed to the Board of Directors of Henry Schein, the largest provider of healthcare products and services to office-based practitioners in the combined North American and European markets, on November 3, 2003, and served as a Director until she was confirmed as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on May 18, 2009.

In 2014, she was listed as the 51st most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.

Hamburg is the daughter of Beatrix Hamburg and David A. Hamburg, both physicians. Her mother was the first self-identified African-American woman to be accepted at Vassar College and to earn a degree from the Yale University School of Medicine. Her father is President Emeritus of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is married to Peter Fitzhugh Brown, an artificial intelligence researcher and Co-CEO and Co-President of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund sponsor that was one of the world's first to employ quantitative trading. They have two children.

External links

• FDA Biography
• FORA.tv videos

Political offices
Preceded by Frank Torti Acting	Commissioner of Food and Drugs 2009–2015	Succeeded by Stephen Ostroff Acting