FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb announced resignation

Gottlieb, who previously served as the agency's Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs. Prior to that he was a senior advisor.

After he was appointed by President Donald Trump, he was sworn in as the 23rd Commissioner on May 11, 2017.

Previously, he worked as a senior advisor to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and was appointed by the Senate to serve on the Federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee.

Prior to these appointments, Gottlieb served as a clinical assistant professor at the New York University School of Medicine in Manhattan, where he also practiced medicine as a hospitalist physician.

He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and of Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he studied Economics.

Gottlieb is also a cancer survivor, a venture capitalist and a government insider who long said he wanted to tear down the wall of FDA regulations he believes are holding back innovation.

CNN's Sandee LaMotte contributed to this report

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