Timothy Cote
Director
Office of Orphan Product Development, FDA

Dr. Timothy Cote has served as the Director of FDA’s Office of Orphan Product Development since September 2007. He received a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University, a medical doctorate from the Howard University College of Medicine, and a master's degree in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health. He has completed residencies and is board certified in both Preventive Medicine and Anatomic Pathology. Dr. Cote began Federal service in 1989 with the CDC’s Epidemiology Investigation Service (EIS) and has since continued as an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps assigned to wide variety of positions at CDC, NIH, USDA and FDA. Most recently he served as CDC Chief of Mission in Kigali, Rwanda where he implemented the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. He has authored or co-authored over 60 publications on infectious and neoplastic disease.