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Personal Biography of Dr. Suzanne Fitzpatrick
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Dr. Suzanne Fitzpatrick is a Senior Science Policy Analyst in the Office of the Commissioner, Office of Science and Health Coordination, at the US Food and Drug Administration. She is the Human Protection Administrator for the FDA Institutional Review Board. In this position, she drafted the Standard Operating Procedures for the FDA IRB and oversees its daily activities. She is also working on the oversight program for quality assurance of all FDA sponsored research. She is a member of the FDA Human Protection Steering Committee, the FDA Human Subjection Protection/Biomonitoring Steering Committee, and the 21 CFR 50.24 consultative review committee. Dr. Fitzpatrick is also a co-investigator on an FDA grant entitled "Pediatric Assent in Adolescent Research Participants" in collaboration with NCI/NIH and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Fitzpatrick is the FDA National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) liaison to the Council for Environmental Quality at the White House. She represents FDA on several Office of Science and Technology Policy Committees (OSTP) including the CNER Subcommittee on Toxics and Risk, the OSTP Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, and the CNER Subcommittee on Endocrine Disruptors. She chairs, with EPA and USGS, the OSTP Interagency Working Group on Human and Veterinary Pharmaceutical in the Environment, whose charge is to leverage research strategies in this area across the different federal agencies. Dr. Fitzpatrick is also a member of the Interagency Committee on Validation of Alternative Animal Models. Dr. Fitzpatrick is a board certified toxicologist. She is the past president of the American College of Toxicology and also a past member of its board of councilors. Currently Dr, Fitzpatrick is the President Elect of the Nation's Capital Chapter of the Society of Toxicology (SOT), a Councilor for the Regulatory and Safety Specialty Section of and a member of the K-12 SOT Education Committee. She is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Science. Dr. Fitzpatrick received her BA from the University of California at San Diego and her PhD from Georgetown University.