Subcommittee onoversight and investigations will now come to order. The subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled sabotage Trump Administration attack on healthcare. The purpose is to examine the efforts of the center for medicaid and Medicaid Services to ensure quality and Affordable Healthcare are all americans. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes or an opening statement. Its no secret the Trump Administration has worked to sabotage health care in this country. On his first day in Office President trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to dismantle the Affordable Care act to the maximum extent by law. And ever since then, the Trump Administration has worked tirelessly to undermine the aca and other Critical Health programs at every turn. In her role as administrator. For the centers of medicare and Medicaid Services, seema verma has been behind many of this administrations effort to undermine healthcare. Despite her role, today is the first time adm
Let me start by asking, you have months, how do you hope to make a mark on the fda . I think it is relevant to talk about my background. Started as a cancer doctor, and at some point i transitioned to being more and a lab studying cancer. Time, the progress in cancer was very slow and it was frustrating. We really were not helping patients to the degree i would have liked. Some a researcher, and at point i also got into the Wonderful World of administration by becoming a cancer city center director. It is a great place. It was a terrific job in a wonderful place to work with great scientist. As you mentioned recently, to the fda. I think the background informs my thinking about what the fda cant can do. I am familiar with the discovery works. I think thats an area where if we want to help patients we have to do that in a streamlined and efficient way. Nci was passionate about how we itd data, and i thought could be used in a more effective way, and i think that conversation directly tr
Ned sharpless. Washington post. This is about 1 hour and 40 minutes. Good morning. I am lori mcginley. I am a help than science reporter here at the washington post. I am delighted to be joined this morning by acting fda commissioner, dr. Ned sharpless. Thank you for being with us. Good morning. Thank for having a. Dr. Sharpless has been on the job a little over two months of the fda. Was previously the director of the National Cancer institute. Dr. Sharpless, let me start by asking, you been there a whole two months now. So, how do you hope to make your mark on the fda . I think maybe it is relevant to talk about my background that brought me to my job a little bit. I a cancer doctor. At some point, transition from taking my patients more in the lab from running in Academic Research lab cancer. I felt like we were, at that time, the progress of cancer was really slow and it was frustrating. From doing the same things over and over with patience. We were helping them. To the degree tha
Good morning. I am lori mcginley. I am a help than science reporter here at the washington post. I am delighted to be joined this morning by acting fda commissioner, dr. Ned sharpless. Thank you for being with us. Good morning. Thank for having a. Dr. Sharpless has been on the job a little over two months of the fda. Was previously the director of the National Cancer institute. Dr. Sharpless, let me start by asking, you been there a whole two months now. So, how do you hope to make your mark on the fda . I think maybe it is relevant to talk about my background that brought me to my job a little bit. I a cancer doctor. At some point, transition from taking my patients more in the lab from running in Academic Research lab cancer. I felt like we were, at that time, the progress of cancer was really slow and it was frustrating. From doing the same things over and over with patience. We were helping them. To the degree that i would have liked. Beyond became a researcher. And at some point d
Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins. The preps perhaps more portly r todays event i am a lump of the 63rd japan america student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of wa