She proved you can reform a large agency stuck in its ways
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Lots of promising and low-cost drugs get down people's gullets thanks to decades of reform at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She's retired now, but Federal Drive Host Tom Temin's guest was the agent behind the modernization of the FDA's drug-review process. Colleagues call her a force of nature. Now she's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals Program: Former principal deputy commissioner Janet Woodcock.
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She proved you can reform a large agency stuck in its ways