John Concato

Dr. John Concato is an Associate Director in the Office of Medical Policy, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), FDA. His responsibilities focus on FDA’s Real-World Evidence (RWE) Program, including internal Agency processes, external stakeholder engagement, demonstration projects, guidance development, and serving as Chair of CDER’s RWE Subcommittee. Dr. Concato joined FDA in 2019 after a 27-year career at Yale School of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where he was Professor of Medicine, Director of the VA Clinical Epidemiology Research Center, and one of two founding principal investigators of the VA Million Veteran Program mega-biobank.