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Report: High ranking FDA official leaving post for lobbying job with Microsoft
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| Donna Bea-Tillman will leave her post at
| Food and Drug Administration to join the
| Washington, D.C. lobbying office of
| Microsoft Corp., according to the Wall
| Street Journal
|
| Donna Bea-Tillman, the director of the
| Food and Drug Administration's office of
| device evaluation, will apparently resign
| her post to join the lobbying office of
| software giant Microsoft Corp., according
| to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
|
| [...]
|
| Tillman told her colleagues in the email
| that she took the position with Microsoft
| because of the potential for health
| information technology to, "reduce the
| skyrocketing cost of health care,"
| according to a copy of the email obtained
| by the paper
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http://www.massdevice.com/news/report-high-ranking-fda-official-leaving-post-lobbying-job-with-microsoft
Key FDA Medical-Device Regulator to Step Down
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| The director of the Office of Device
| Evaluation, one of the highest-ranking
| positions at the Food and Drug
| Administration, is leaving this month to
| join the Washington office of Microsoft
| Corp., according to an email she sent
| Monday morning.
|
| Donna-Bea Tillman, who has been with the
| FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological
| Health since 1994, said in the email that
| she will become part of the software
| giant's health solutions group as the
| director of regulations and policy. The
| FDA and Microsoft confirmed the move.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704754604575095412328840740.html?mod=WSJ_business_IndustryNews_DHC
Microsoft Hires Ex-Regulator in Health Push
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| You probably wouldnât put Microsoft on the
| list of companies in the market to hire
| former FDA officials, but the software
| giant snagged a top medical-device
| regulator today.
|
| Donna-Bea Tillman, head of the office of
| device approvals, says her jump to
| Microsoft isnât as unusual as it may seem.
| She told colleagues in a memo she has long
| had âa love for all things computer.â
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http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/03/01/microsoft-hires-ex-regulator-in-health-push/
Watch who's coming to the gangster operation:
Vivek Kundra, Obama's CIO, visits Seattle Thursday
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| After his San Francisco tour, Kundra is
| coming to Seattle for a day Thursday
| beginning with breakfast at Microsoft with
| Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and other
| local executives.
|
| Microsoft will show Kundra advanced
| research projects before he speaks at the
| University of Washington in the afternoon.
| He'll also meet with executives at
| Amazon.com before making an appearance at
| the Washington Technology Industry
| Association's awards dinner.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011249366_kundra04.html
Recent:
Time To Rebut The IIPA's FUD Against Open Source
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| A recent blog posting at The Guardian
| about the US "Special 301" rules has
| generated deep concern around the global
| open source community. It points (via a
| blog posting by Edinburgh University law
| lecturer Andres Guadamuz) to this year's
| recommendations from the controversially-
| named International Intellectual Property
| Alliance, which describes itself as "a
| private sector coalition... of trade
| associations representing U.S. copyright-
| based industries" - namely
|
| "the Association of American
| Publishers (AAP), the Business
| Software Alliance (BSA), the
| Entertainment Software Association
| (ESA), the Independent Film &
| Television Alliance (IFTA), the Motion
| Picture Association of America (MPAA),
| the National Music Publishers'
| Association (NMPA) and the Recording
| Industry Association of America
| (RIAA)".
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http://opensource.org/node/510
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