FDA
Dr. Suzanne Fitzpatrick is the Senior Advisor for Toxicology at the US Food and Drug Administration Foods Program. She is a board-certified toxicologist in the US and in Europe. Dr. Fitzpatrick is the co-chair of the CFSAN, EFSA and OECD work group on advancing new predictive toxicology test methods for food safety. Dr. Fitzpatrick chairs the FDA’s Alternative Methods Work Group that is currently focusing on in vitro Microphysiological Systems. This work group published the FDA Report on Advancing Alternative Methodologies. Dr. Fitzpatrick helped develop the FDA DARPA NCATS program on Organs on a Chip and continues to work and give presentations on this evolving area. Dr. Fitzpatrick chaired the FDA Predictive Toxicology Roadmap Committee. Dr. Fitzpatrick is the principal FDA representative to ICCVAM and to the Tox 21 partnership with EPA, NCATS, and NIEHS. Dr. Fitzpatrick is an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University. She received her BA from the University of California at San Diego and her PhD from Georgetown University.