Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA

President Trump is expected to nominate Heidi Overton, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, as the next FDA commissioner. Overton holds a medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and a doctoral degree in clinical investigation from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has shaped health policies during Trump’s second term and previously worked with former FDA commissioner Marty Makary at Johns Hopkins.