FDA Selects First Head of Medical Device Cybersecurity

The FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health has appointed Kevin Fu as acting director of its newly created medical device cybersecurity division.

A prominent medical device security researcher at the University of Michigan, Fu has trained hundreds of engineers at medical device companies in cybersecurity engineering.

He will return to his role at the University of Michigan at the end of a one-year term in which he will also serve with the FDA’s Digital Health Center of Excellence.