Mar 3, 2021
Peter Pitts is President and co-founder of the Center
for Medicine in the Public Interest. Prior to founding
CMPI, Pitts was a Senior Fellow for healthcare studies at
the Pacific Research Institute.
Peter was FDA’s Associate Commissioner for External Relations,
serving as senior communications and policy adviser to the
Commissioner. He supervised FDA's Office of Public Affairs, Office
of the Ombudsman, Office of Special Health Issues, Office of
Executive Secretariat, and Advisory Committee Oversight and
Management. He served on the agency’s obesity working group and
counterfeit drug task force.
His book, Become Strategic or Die, is widely recognized as a
cutting edge study of how leadership, in order to be successful
over the long term, must be combined with strategic vision and
ethical practice. He is the editor of the new book, Coincidence or
Crisis, a discussion of global prescription medicine
counterfeiting.
The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest is a nonprofit,
non-partisan organization promoting innovative solutions that
advance medical progress, reduce health disparities, extend life
and make healthcare more affordable, preventive and
patient-centered. CMPI also provides the public, policymakers and
the media a reliable source of independent scientific analysis on
issues ranging from personalized medicine, food and drug safety,
health care reform and comparative effectiveness.