Dr. Suzanne Fitzpatrick is the Senior Advisor for Toxicology at the US Food
and Drug Administration Foods Program. She is a board-certified toxicologist in the US and in Europe Dr. Fitzpatrick chairs the FDA’s Alternative Methods Work Group that is currently focusing on in vitro Microphysiological Systems. Dr. Fitzpatrick helped develop the FDA DARPA NCATS program on Organs on a Chip and continues to work and give presentations on this evolving area. Dr. Fitzpatrick chaired the FDA Predictive Toxicology Roadmap Committee. Dr. Fitzpatrick is the principal FDA representative to ICCVAM and to the Tox 21 partnership with EPA, NCATS, and NIEHS. Dr. Fitzpatrick is an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University. She is the Past President of the American College of Toxicology and is currently the Secretary of the Society of Toxicology Executive Board. She received her BA from the University of California at San Diego and her PhD from Georgetown University.