Patricia Beaston, MD, PhD

Patricia Beaston served as a Medical Officer at the Food and Drug Administration for 24 years. She began her career in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research evaluating endocrine drug products. She moved to the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) to she provide clinical consultation on endocrine related devices including diagnostic, software, drug delivery and combination products. She completed her service in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) where her review work included islet cell transplantation, immune modulation in type 1 diabetes, gene therapies for inborn errors of metabolism, and xeno-transplantation.

Dr. Beaston earned a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Maryland, College Park, a Ph.D. in Anatomy and Neurobiology, and an M.D. from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and was a Fellow in Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism at PennState/Hershey where she did basic research in addition to her clinical responsibilities.