US Food and Drug Administration: Jeff Shuren, Michelle Tarver

Jeff Shuren, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), said this week that he will leave the agency later this year. On July 28 he will move to the Commissioner's Office as center director emeritus, and Michelle Tarver, the current deputy center director for transformation, will become CDRH acting director. Shuren will officially leave the agency later this year.

Shuren joined FDA in 1998 and has been CDRH director since 2009. Prior to 2009 he held a variety of policy and planning positions within the Office of the Commissioner.

Tarver joined FDA in 2009 as a staff fellow in CDRH's Office of Surveillance and Biometrics. She was previously an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.