STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow STAT+: How Trump loyalist Heidi Overton became the president’s pick to run the FDA If she wins confirmation as FDA commissioner, Heidi Overton will face plenty of big challenges. https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/heidi-overton-fda-commissioner-nominee-competing-interests-ahead/ statnews.com