International Relations Specialist
Food and Drug Administration
Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
Dr. Taylor currently serves an Acting Assistant Country Director at the US-FDA China Office. She brings over 18 years of policy, clinical, and teaching experience with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS), academia, and private sector. She has a proven track-record of successfully leading teams in developing and implementing new policy and legislation, international harmonization, domestic and international stakeholder engagement, contractor management, and managed care consulting. She has extensive experience with application reviews and liaising with pharmaceutical industry on Investigational New Drug (IND) and New Drug Applications (NDA) at FDA. She has represented FDA and CMS, presenting at large national and international conferences. Prior to coming to the FDA-China office, she was the Senior Policy Advisor in the Division of Psychiatry (DP), and led many process improvement initiatives and contributed to development of FDA Guidance for Industry in the areas of labeling and clinical trial design for psychiatric drugs. She has also served as the Associate Director of Labeling and Regulatory Project Manager in DP.
Over the course of her career as a United States Public Health Service officer, she has served on multiple deployments in response to national emergencies as a mental health team pharmacist. She is trained as a clinical pharmacist, board-certified in psychiatric pharmacy and residency-trained in geriatric pharmacotherapy. She received an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland and has guest lectured for the Master of Regulatory Science Program. She is passionate about advancing international public health and applying best business practices to strengthening partnerships with academia, industry, and global counterparts in promoting drug development.
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