Tempus: Scott Gottlieb

Tempus has named former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to its board of directors. Gottlieb headed the FDA from May 2017 until April 2019. In the 2000s, he was the agency's deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs and later a senior advisor to the former FDA Commissioner. An internal medicine physician, Gottlieb also had a stint as senior advisor to the administrator for the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he helped implement the Medicare Part D drug benefit. He also spent 10 years as a venture capitalist with New Enterprise Associates. He remains a resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.