David Kessler, MD is the former Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration. He was appointed by President G. H. W. Bush and reappointed by President Clinton. He served as the Dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco. He earned an Advanced Professional Certificate from the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration. He is the author of A Question of Intent and New York Times bestseller, The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. In addition, he has published numerous articles in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and other major medical journals. He serves on the board of various organizations, including the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Dr. Kessler was named the “2008 National Hero” by the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley “for his leadership as the nation’s top drug regulator and his courage in challenging the U.S. tobacco industry.”