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Joseph Wright ’79

Joseph Wright ’79, MD, MPH, was appointed to the 14-member Pediatric Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration. The committee advises the commissioner of the FDA on a range of pediatric issues, including identification of research priorities, ethics design and analysis of clinical trials, pediatric labeling disputes, and adverse event reports for drugs granted for pediatric exclusivity and safety issues. He is a senior vice president at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he heads the hospital’s Child Health Advocacy Institute. A professor of pediatrics, emergency medicine, and health policy at the George Washington University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, he earned an M.D. from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and a master of public health in administrative medicine from George Washington University.
Joseph Wright ’79, MD, MPH, was appointed to the 14-member Pediatric Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration. The committee advises the commissioner of the FDA on a range of pediatric issues, including identification of research priorities, ethics design and analysis of clinical trials, pediatric labeling disputes, and adverse event reports for drugs granted for pediatric exclusivity and safety issues. He is a senior vice president at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he heads the hospital’s Child Health Advocacy Institute. A professor of pediatrics, emergency medicine, and health policy at the George Washington University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, he earned an M.D. from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and a master of public health in administrative medicine from George Washington University.