David A. Kessler

David A. Kessler, M.D., served as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.  He has been dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco and is a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF.  A graduate of Amherst College, the University of Chicago Law School, and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kessler is the author of Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering (2016), The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite (2009), and A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry (2001).