VC Star November 26, 2022
A colleague of mine made some comments a few days ago that prompted me to put in writing things that I’ve been thinking about for years that, in my estimation, go to the core of some of the issues that trouble many Americans. First, I’ll very briefly review what he said, and then I’ll discuss what are the implications.
My colleague is a fellow cardiologist, Rob Califf, who happens to head the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He’s worked at Google, Duke, and trained at my alma mater, UC San Francisco, and this is his second time at the helm of the FDA. The occasion was the opening plenary session of the just-completed Annual American Heart Association conference in Chicago,...