Robert McKinnon Califf
is the commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (Connecting the Dots: Califf, FDA, CDC, Duke University,
Google, Johnson & Johnson, ProPublica & The Soros Funded Think Tanks
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Portrait of Robert M. Califf, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration under President Biden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Califf
Robert
McKinnon Califf (born 1951) is an
American cardiologist who currently serves as the 25th Commissioner of the Food
and Drug Administration.
He was first nominated to be commissioner in September 2015
by President Barack Obama[1] and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in
February 2016,[2] serving until January 20, 2017.
President
Joe Biden renominated Califf to head the Food and Drug Administration on November 12, 2021.[3] He was confirmed by the Senate
of February 15, 2022.
Prior to becoming commissioner he had served as the
Deputy Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration's Office
of Medical Products and Tobacco since January 2015.[4][5][6] In 2019, he became head of medical strategy at Google
parent company Alphabet Inc.
Early life and education
Califf was born in Anderson, South Carolina.[8] He
attended high school in Columbia, South Carolina where he was a member of the
1969 AAAA South Carolina Championship basketball team.[9][unreliable source?] He
attended Duke
University,
graduating in 1973 summa cum laude[4] and
is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[9]
In 1978, he graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in
Durham, North Carolina,[4] and
was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society.[9] He
left North Carolina for an internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco and
returned in 1980 to Duke to complete a fellowship in cardiology.[4] He
is board-certified in internal medicine (1984) and cardiology (1986), and a
Master of the American College of Cardiology (2006).
Career
Duke University
Califf was granted tenure as professor of cardiology at Duke University School of Medicine. He was the founding director
of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, which is considered "the world’s
largest academic research organization" with 1000 employees[4] and
an annual budget of $320 million, 50-60% of which is funded from the
pharmaceutical industry.[10]
Califf has led many clinical cardiology research
studies, health outcomes research, health care quality, and translational research, which seeks to ensure that advances in
science translate into medical care. He was a lead investigator in clinical
trials testing the efficacy of the cholesterol-lowering drug combination ezetimibe/simvastatin.[11]
As of 2015, he was vice-chancellor of clinical and
translational research and the Duke Translational Medicine Institute (DTMI)
director. Califf is recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as
one of the top 10 most cited medical authors, with more than 1,200
peer-reviewed publications.
Relationships with the pharmaceutical industry
Califf worked very closely with pharmaceutical companies
at the Duke clinical trials center "convincing them to do large,
expensive, and, for Duke, profitable clinical trials."[12] He
was a paid consultant for Merck Sharp & Dohme, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca,
and Eli Lilly per ProPublica from
2009 to 2013. The largest consulting payment was $87,500 by Johnson &
Johnson in 2012, and "most of funds for travel or consulting under
$5,000", which has been called "minimal for a physician of his
stature".[13] From
2013-2014 he was paid a total of $52,796, the highest amount was $6,450
from Merck Sharp & Dohme, followed by Amgen, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Daiichi Sankyo, Sanofi-Aventis, Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca.[14] He
was the Director of Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from July 2012 to January 26,
2015,[13] An
advisor of Proventys, Inc., Chairman of the medical advisory board of Regado
Biosciences, Inc. and has been a member of the medical advisory board since
June 2, 2009, and a member of the clinical advisory board of Corgentech Inc.[15] Forbes
wrote that his close ties to the drug industry were why he was not nominated
for the FDA Commissioner position in 2009.[12] Califf's
ties to the pharmaceutical industry were criticized by the magazine The American Prospect,[16] and
Democratic Senators Bernie
Sanders and Joe Manchin who
announced their intention to vote against his 2021 renomination.
Connecting
the Dots:
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for ProPublica, the Human Rights Watch, the Millennium Promise
and the Robin Hood Foundation.
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, a benefactor
for the Human Rights Watch and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch and the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Amy Robbins
Towers is a director at the Human
Rights Watch, a board member for the CDC Foundation, was a director at the Millennium Promise, and married to Larry Robbins.
CDC Foundation is
a foundation for the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Robert Jeffrey was
a board member for the CDC Foundation and is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Susan Molinari is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank) and a VP for Google Inc.
Larry Robbins was
married to Amy Robbins Towers and is a director at the Robin Hood Foundation.
Emma Bloomberg was
the chief of staff for the Robin Hood
Foundation, Michael R.
Bloomberg’s daughter, and is
a director at the Bloomberg Family
Foundation.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC Foundation.
CDC Foundation is
a foundation for the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, is Emma Bloomberg’s father, the founder of the Bloomberg Family Foundation and a member
of Kappa Beta Phi.
Robert
McKinnon Califf is a member of Kappa
Beta Phi, the commissioner for the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), attended Duke University and
he became head of medical strategy at Google
parent company Alphabet Inc.
Mark B. McClellan was
a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and is a director at Johnson & Johnson (Vaccine Manufacturer for the China Virus).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for
the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Charles O.
Prince III was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and is a
director at Johnson & Johnson (Vaccine
Manufacturer for the China Virus).
Ann Dibble Jordan was
a director at Johnson & Johnson (Vaccine
Manufacturer for the China Virus), is an honorary trustee at
the Brookings Institution (think tank) and married to Vernon
E. Jordan Jr.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a lobby firm for the Johnson & Johnson
(Vaccine Manufacturer for the China Virus).
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, married to Ann Dibble Jordan,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and was a
president for the Economic Club of
Washington.
David M.
Rubenstein is a co-chairman for the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the president of the Economic Club of Washington and a trustee
at Duke University.
Google Inc. was
a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Foundation to
Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for
the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Sheryl K.
Sandberg was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and a VP for Google Inc.
Victoria Ransom was
a director of product for Google Inc.
and is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Donald Kennedy was
a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank) and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Margaret A.
Hamburg is the VP for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank) and
was the commissioner for the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA).
Michael Douglas is
a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank) and a friend of George
Soros.
George Soros is a friend of Michael Douglas and
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Mark B. McClellan was
a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is
a director at Johnson & Johnson
(Vaccine Manufacturer for the China Virus).
Robert
McKinnon Califf was
a paid consultant for Johnson & Johnson (Vaccine
Manufacturer for the China Virus), is a member of Kappa Beta Phi, the commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), attended
Duke University and he became head of medical strategy at Google parent company Alphabet Inc.
Resources:
Past Research
Did the Kappa Beta Phi
Manipulate the Bailout & Stock Market? You Decide (Past
Research on Kappa Beta Phi)
FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/05/did-kappa-beta-phi-manipulate-bailout.html
Muslim Call to Prayer to
be Chanted Every Friday at Duke University (Past
Research on Duke University)
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/01/muslim-call-to-prayer-to-be-chanted.html
Center for American
Progress Surrenders: No Longer Pushing Assault Weapons Ban (Past Research on ProPublica)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/09/center-for-american-progress-surrenders.html
The CDC: A Truly
Corrupt and Dangerous Organization (Past Research
on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))
TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2016
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-cdc-truly-corrupt-and-dangerous.html
FDA Fails to Protect
Americans from Dangerous Drugs and Unsafe Foods (Past
Research on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA))
SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/05/fda-fails-to-protect-americans-from.html
Johnson's Baby Powder
and Ovarian Cancer (Past Research on Johnson &
Johnson)
SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2016
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/04/johnsons-baby-powder-and-ovarian-cancer.html
FAKE NEWS: Google
Targets Daily Wire, Other Conservative Sites With Left-Wing Fact Checks,
Immunizes Left-Wing Sites (Past Research on Google
Inc.)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2018/01/fake-news-google-targets-daily-wire.html
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