Founder of the Duke Clinical Research Institute; commissioner 2016–17 and again from 2022; the evidence-infrastructure commissioner
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In Jonathan Hare's account (S-192): he and Jack Lewin met with Califf numerous times across his commissionerships. This page awaits the email archive for the dates and substance; the Catalyst placeholder framing below preceded that account.
The public record, at web grade. A Duke cardiologist who built the Duke Clinical Research Institute into the largest academic clinical-trials organization in the world; FDA commissioner in 2016–17 and again from 2022 through the change of administration in 2025, with a Verily/Google chapter between; the American official most identified with the idea that health regulation is an evidence-infrastructure problem. In this record's network: that idea is this record's idea — the FDA pilot thread and the RNS approach exist precisely because trials, registries and adverse-event systems cannot share what they know; and the Duke seat puts him one corridor from McClellan's Duke-Margolis center.
Robert Califf — FDA Commissioner, FDA (Food & Drug Administration) — stands in the Executive Catalyst Graph's Federal Officials - Healthcare sector, the pathway running through Jack Lewin. A structural placeholder per S-101's instruction: the dossier — the exact context, dates, meetings and shared initiatives, drawn from Hare's archives — is in preparation in a dedicated research thread, so that this page, when it arrives, immediately recalls the relationship for its subject. Corrections and additions are invited now as ever: evidence@qpncatalyst.io.
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The physician-executive whose reach runs from Aetna's CEO to a $120m statewide transformation
Open →commissionerHamburg's meeting and the Seyfert-Margolis pilot; commissioners Califf, Gottlieb, Woodcock, McClellan; the division chiefs of CDER, CDRH and CBER
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