Steven Silverman FDA

Steven Silverman is the Director of CDRH’s Office of Compliance.  In this role, he oversees a staff of more than 170 scientific and regulatory personnel who assure compliance with the medical-device related provisions of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and its implementing regulations.  Mr. Silverman also represents CDRH on agency-wide globalization initiatives and leads Center-wide compliance strategic planning efforts.  He comes to this position from his role as Assistant Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s Office of Compliance, where he helped lead a staff that applied federal laws and regulations governing the development, manufacture, labeling, and marketing of human drugs.

Before joining the Center for Drugs, Mr. Silverman served as an Associate Chief Counsel in FDA’s Office of Chief Counsel.  Mr. Silverman’s government service includes four-plus years as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division, which he joined following his tenure with the Federal Trade Commission’s Financial Practices Division.  He began his career in private practice.

Mr. Silverman received his undergraduate degree cum laude from the University of Michigan.  He attended the University of Pennsylvania law school, where he graduated cum laude and was an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.