Top FDA digital leader lands at Mayo Clinic

Sonja Fulmer, who recently left her role as a top digital health official at the Food and Drug Administration, last week started a new position working on health tech policy at Mayo Clinic. She is the second top health regulator to land at the system this year, and follows a handful of other senior government leaders who’ve left federal roles for health tech industry jobs.

Fulmer updated her LinkedIn profile in early September to say that she is now a senior director of health policy at Mayo Clinic. She spent 11 years at FDA and was until August the acting head of the Digital Health Center of Excellence. She joins Micky Tripathi, who started at Mayo Clinic as chief AI implementation officer earlier this year after serving as the top health IT regulator during President Biden’s administr