Our author Peter Rost is being pushed as possible candidate for FDA Commissioner?!
Pharma Marketing News is doing a poll of its readers on who should be Obama's FDA Commissioner. Whistleblower (and Soft Skull author) Peter Rost was suggested. And oddly enough, he's leading! (Feel free to vote yourself...)
Though perhaps not so odd, in that Obama's Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emmanuel has been one of Rost's biggest supporters.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel released the following statement today [this is back in late 2004] at a press conference with members of the tri-partisan Rx Drug Coalition and Pfizer Vice President, Dr. Peter Rost debunking the myth that prescription drugs from abroad are unsafe. Dr. Rost is the first executive from a major drug company to come forward and speak out against the drug industry’s scare campaign. Dr. Rost and members of Congress will urge the U.S. Senate to take action this year on prescription drug market access legislation.
Dang. This could get interesting.