NPC Luncheon: Margaret Hamburg

Photo Credit: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, M.D., speaks at a National Press Club luncheon on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. Today’s luncheon also featured “Caduceus Cupcakes” prepared by Maribeth Nyerges of Maribeth’s Bakery in Springfield, VA. " Noel St. John

Photo Credit: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, M.D., speaks at a National Press Club luncheon on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. Dr. Hamburg stated that her goal as commissioner is to make sure the agency remains science based. Noel St. John

Photo Credit: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, M.D., speaks at a National Press Club luncheon on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. The commissioner stated that The "War on Cancer" began in 1971 ago under President Nixon, but we are still using "toxic drugs" approved twenty years ago. Noel St. John

Photo Credit: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, M.D., speaks at a National Press Club luncheon on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. Dr. Hamburg stated that a top priority for her agency as well as Health and Human Services is the readiness of counter-measures against bio-terrorism and other naturally occurring diseases. Noel St. John

Photo Credit: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, M.D., speaks at a National Press Club luncheon on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. When asked by NPC president Alan Bjerga what would be her personal health advice to her family, Dr. Hamburg replied, "Do what your mother always told you." (Also pictured, Melissa Charbonneau, Executive Producer, News Hook Media.) Noel St. John