CAPT Scott A. Colburn, MS FDA

CAPT Scott A. Colburn is the Director of the Standards and Conformity Assessment Program at the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

In this role, Scott is responsible for the Center’s standards recognition and related development activities in ~600 national and international consensus standards committees. In addition, Scott oversees the programs new Accreditation Scheme for Conformity Assessment [ASCA] pilot program and the Center's efforts in harmonizing standards within the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF).

Scott has served in numerous roles as a lead nurse consultant in the area of premarket review and voluntary consensus standards development and implementation for medical devices. Scott is a member to numerous national and international standards organizations and sits on several policy and leadership committees.

Scott earned his BSN from Marquette University in 1999 where he then received his commission in the US Army. Scott transferred to the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in January 2004 where he began his career with the FDA. Since then, he has earned a MS in Biomedical Technology Development and Management from Georgetown University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.