David Gortler

David Gortler

Senior Research Fellow

David Gortler is a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. His work focuses on the non-partisan and non-political, clinical and scientific research and evaluation for the advancement and reform of the U.S. Health and Human Services, (HHS) with an emphasis on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Dr. Gortler is a pharmacologist, pharmacist and a Yale University-trained clinical and molecular biology bench research scientist with a subspecialty in the area of vascular medicine, lipid metabolism and investigational medicine. Following his education and postdoctoral training, he entered the private sector working in drug development for Pfizer. He later returned to the Yale University School of Medicine as a didactic professor of pharmacology and biotechnology. He also served as a faculty representative at Yale’s Center for Bioethics. He left Yale upon being hired by FDA where continued to teach part-time as a professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.