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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jerry Avorn on the FDA Amendments Act of 2007 and the effort to make data on drug safety more transparent and available.

Published: Sept. 19, 2018, 3:01 p.m.

b'Dr. Jerry Avorn is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women\\u2019s Hospital. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J. Avorn, A. Kesselheim, and A. Sarpatwari. The FDA Amendments Act of 2007 - Assessing Its Effects a Decade Later. N Engl J Med 2018;379:1097-9.'