Christa Wirthumer-Hoche Elected as Chair of EMA Management Board

The European Medicines Agency has elected Christa Wirthumer-Hoche as chair of its management board for a three-year period, succeeding Kent Woods who stepped down last December.

Wirthumer-Hoche, who has been with the EMA since 1995, has served as head of the Austrian Medicines and Medical Devices Agency since October 2013 and as vice chair of EMA’s management board since March 2015.