Suzanne Schwartz, MD, MBA is the Associate Director for Science & Strategic Partnerships at FDA's Center for Devices & Radiological Health (CDRH). Among other public health concerns, her portfolio has most notably included medical device cybersecurity, for which she chairs CDRH's Cybersecurity Working Group. She also co-chairs the Government Coordinating Council for Healthcare & Public Health critical infrastructure sector. Before FDA, Suzanne was a full time surgical faculty member at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Dr. Suzanne Schwartz is the Associate Director for Science & Strategic Partnerships at FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health (CDRH). In this role, she assists the CDRH Director and Deputy Director for Science in the development, execution and evaluation of the Center’s biomedical science and engineering programs. Suzanne is passionate about cultivating critical dialogue across sectors and across entities towards advancing innovation in the biomedical space and within healthcare, where complex multifaceted problems exist. Suzanne joined FDA in October 2010. Initially recruited as a Commissioner’s Fellow, she became a Medical Officer in the Office of Device Evaluation, transitioning in September 2012 to become the Director of CDRH’s Emergency Preparedness/Operations and Medical Countermeasures (EMCM) Program in the Office of the Center Director for the past 4 years. Among other public health concerns, her portfolio has most notably included medical device cybersecurity, for which she chairs CDRH’s Cybersecurity Working Group. She also co-chairs the Government Coordinating Council for Healthcare & Public Health critical infrastructure sector. Before FDA, Suzanne was a full time surgical faculty member at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York. Suzanne’s career has spanned the private sector as well, having served as Medical Director & Tissue Bank Director of Ortec International, a development stage medical device company focused on tissue engineering therapeutic approaches to burns and chronic wounds. Suzanne earned an MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, trained in General Surgery & Burn Trauma at the New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center; an executive MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, and completed the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative – Harvard School of Public Health & Kennedy School of Government.