Obama Nominates Two More

The White House announced last week that President Obama
plans to nominate Yvette Roubideaux, an
assistant professor at the University of Arizona’s College of
Medicine, as director of the Indian Health Service. Roubideaux, a
member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe, had previously worked for IHS as
a medical officer and clinical director on the San Carlos Indian
Reservation and in the Gila River Indian community.

Obama has also nominated Dr. Margaret Hamburg to serve as the
next U.S. Food & Drug Administration Commissioner and has named
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein as principal deputy commissioner. Hamburg was
a New York City health commissioner and an assistant secretary of
HHS during the Clinton administration. According to press reports,
Sharfstein has pushed the FDA to ban over-the-counter cold and
cough medicines for children younger than 6, and in the past worked
for now House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman,
D-Calif.