Revolving door at New Mexico

WASHINGTON - While the White House nomination of Jane Henney to be FDA commissioner hasn't gotten out of low gear, the revolving door between the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and FDA will begin to turn on July 6 when Linda Suydam takes up her new job as associate commissioner for strategic management. The newly created position will be charged with coordinating FDA's efforts to ensure that it is complying with the FDA Modernization Act of 1997.

Suydam was last seen at FDA as interim deputy commissioner for operations, a job she stepped into when Henney resigned to become vice president for health sciences at New Mexico. Suydam then followed Henney to New Mexico in 1995, where she became associate vice president of planning and development...