Below
is the text of an FDA announcement describing the committee
and requirements for prospective members:
FDA Seeking New Members with Hep C Experience
for its Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee
December
4, 2010 -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to assist
in its mission to protect and promote the public health, uses
49 committees and panels to obtain independent expert advice
on scientific, technical, and policy matters.
FDA
is seeking technically qualified medical/scientific consultants
to serve as members of its Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee
for future panels to consider potential direct-acting antivirals
(DAAs) for the treatment of hepatitis C -- specifically hepatologists
or other medical doctors who treat a substantial number of hepatitis
C patients. Consultants should have experience interpreting
and analyzing detailed scientific data, and understand its public
health significance.
Potential candidates will be required to provide detailed information
concerning such matters as financial holdings, employment, and
research grants and/or contracts to permit evaluation of possible
sources of conflict of interest. Potential conflicts include,
but may not be limited to: employment with a pharmaceutical
sponsor, having financial interests or stock in pharmaceutical
companies developing DAAs, participating as an investigator
in pivotal studies of DAAs in development, being chair of a
department in which colleagues are investigating a DAA, or receiving
substantial amounts of reimbursement from DAA sponsors for consulting
services or presentations.
Advisory Committee meetings are convened in the Washington DC
metropolitan area, typically for two days twice a year. Committee
members are appointed as Special Government Employees, and receive
a salary for each meeting day as well as travel and per diem
costs.
General information about FDA Advisory Committees can be found
at www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/default.htm
and information about membership can be found at www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/CommitteeMembership/default.htm.
If you are a medical doctor meeting the criteria above, or would
like to nominate a medical doctor with hepatitis C expertise,
you may submit your information by:
