Obama's Pick As Head Of FDA

Margaret Ann Hamburg  is an American physician and public health administrator. She has served as Vice President for Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the New York City Commissioner of Health.She was nominated in March 2009 by President Barack Obama to become the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Like Obama she is a product of Jewish and Black parents

The Second In Command

Joshua M. Sharfstein  graduated from Harvard College in 1991, then went on to graduate from Harvard Medical School in 1996.   After the election of President Obama in 2008, Sharfstein served as leader of the Obama transition team on the FDA.

Both of Sharfstein's parents are physicians. His father is a former president of the American Psychiatric Association.