{"id":8817,"date":"2025-12-03T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/theresa-michele-fda-office-of-nonprescription-drugs-transfered-to-new-role\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:02:21","slug":"theresa-michele-fda-office-of-nonprescription-drugs-transfered-to-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/theresa-michele-fda-office-of-nonprescription-drugs-transfered-to-new-role\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: FDA removes longtime over-the-counter drugs regulator from her position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: FDA removes longtime over-the-counter drugs regulator from her position<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Food and Drug Administration removed the longtime director of the office of over-the-counter drugs from her position on Wednesday, six agency sources told STAT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Theresa Michele, director of the Office of Nonprescription Drugs, has <a href=\"https:\/\/openpayrolls.com\/employee\/theresa-m-michele-9856\">worked<\/a> at the FDA since at least 2015. She told staff in an internal meeting on Wednesday afternoon that the agency\u2019s human resources office was transferring her to a leadership position in the FDA\u2019s medical devices center effective Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michele did not immediately provide a comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/03\/theresa-michele-fda-office-of-nonprescription-drugs-transfered-to-new-role\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Lizzy Lawrence<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/03\/theresa-michele-fda-office-of-nonprescription-drugs-transfered-to-new-role\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: FDA removes longtime over-the-counter drugs regulator from her position WASHINGTON \u2014 The Food and Drug Administration removed the longtime director of the office of over-the-counter drugs from her position on Wednesday, six agency sources told STAT.\u00a0 Theresa Michele, director of the Office of Nonprescription Drugs, has worked at the FDA since at least 2015. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2154,2216,2181,2146,2176,2155,2151,2144,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-breaking-news","category-exclusive","category-fda","category-pharma","category-pharmaceuticals","category-policy","category-politics","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}