Charter of the Patient Engagement Advisory Committee to the Food and Drug Administration
COMMITTEE’s OFFICIAL DESIGNATION
Patient Engagement Advisory Committee
AUTHORITY
The Patient Engagement Advisory Committee was established under 15 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.; 21 U.S.C. 321, 341, 342, 343, 343-1, 344, 345, 346, 348, 349, 350, 350a, 351, 352, 353(f), 355, 355h, 360b, 360c-j, 371, 375, 376, 378, 379e, 381, 393, 394, 881(b); 42 U.S.C. 217a, 241, 242, 242a, 262, 264; 21 CFR Part 14, and is governed by Pub. L. 92-463, the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. §1001 et seq).
OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES
The Patient Engagement Advisory Committee (the Committee) advises the Commissioner of Food and Drugs or designee in discharging responsibilities as they relate to helping to ensure safe and effective devices for human use and as required, any other product for which the Food and Drug Administration has regulatory responsibility.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES
The Committee provides advice to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs or designee on complex, scientific issues related to medical devices, the regulation of devices, and their use by patients. Agency guidance and policies, clinical trial or registry design, patient preference study design, benefit-risk determinations, device labeling, unmet clinical needs, available alternatives, patient-reported outcomes, device-related quality of life measures or health status issues are among the topics that may be considered by the Committee. The Committee provides relevant skills and perspectives to improve communication of benefits, risks, and clinical outcomes, and increase integration of patient perspectives into the regulatory process for medical devices. It performs its duties by identifying new approaches, promoting innovation, recognizing unforeseen risks or barriers, and identifying unintended consequences that could result from FDA policy.
AGENCY OR OFFICIAL TO WHOM THE COMMITTEE REPORTS
The Committee provides advice to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs or designee.
SUPPORT
Management and support services shall be provided by the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).
ESTIMATED ANNUAL OPERATING COSTS AND STAFF YEARS
The estimated annual cost for operating the Committee, including compensation and travel expenses for members but excluding staff support, is $73,794. The estimated person years of staff support required is 0.70, at an estimated annual cost of $200,202.
DESIGNATED FEDERAL OFFICER
FDA will select a full-time or permanent part-time Federal employee to serve as the Designated Federal Officer (DFO) to attend each Committee and subcommittee meeting and ensure that all committee procedures are within applicable statutory, regulatory, and HHS General Administration Manual directives. The DFO will approve and prepare all meeting agendas, call all the Committee and subcommittee meetings, adjourn any meeting when the DFO determines adjournment to be in the public interest and chair meetings when directed to do so by the official to whom the Committee reports. The DFO shall be present at all meetings of the full committee and subcommittees.
ESTIMATED NUMBER AND FREQUENCY OF MEETINGS
Meetings shall be held approximately one to two times a year. Meetings shall be open to the public except as determined otherwise by the Commissioner or designee in accordance with the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(c)) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Notice of all meetings shall be given to the public.
DURATION
Continuing
TERMINATION
Unless renewed by appropriate action, the Patient Engagement Advisory Committee will terminate two years from the date the charter is filed.
MEMBERSHIP AND DESIGNATION
The Committee shall consist of a core of 9 voting members including the Chair. Members and the Chair are selected by the Commissioner or designee from among authorities who are knowledgeable in areas such as clinical research, patient experience, healthcare needs of patient groups in the United States, or are experienced in the work of patient and health professional organizations, scientific methodologies for
patient-reported outcomes and eliciting patient preferences, and strategies for communicating benefits, risks and clinical outcomes to patients and research subjects, as well as other relevant areas. Members will be
invited to serve for overlapping terms of up to four years. Non-Federal members of this committee will serve either as Special Government Employees or non-voting representatives. Federal members will serve as Regular Government Employees. The core of voting members may include one technically qualified member, selected by the Commissioner or designee, who is identified with consumer interests and is recommended by either a consortium of consumer-oriented organizations or other interested persons. The Commissioner or designee shall also have the authority to select from a group of individuals nominated by industry to serve temporarily as nonvoting members who are identified with industry interests. The number of temporary members selected for a particular meeting will depend on the meeting topic.
The Commissioner or designee shall also have the authority to select members of other scientific and technical FDA advisory committees (normally not to exceed 10 members) to serve temporarily as voting members and to designate consultants to serve temporarily as voting members when: (1) expertise is required that is not available among current voting standing members of the Committee (when additional voting members are added to the Committee to provide needed expertise, a quorum will be based on the combined total of regular and added members), or (2) to comprise a quorum when, because of unforeseen circumstances, a quorum is or will be lacking. Because of the size of the Committee and the variety in the types of issues that it will consider, FDA may, in connection with a particular committee meeting, specify a quorum that is less than a majority of the current voting members. The Agency's regulations (21 CFR §14.22(d)) authorize a committee charter to specify quorum requirements.
If functioning as a medical device panel, an additional non-voting member who represents consumer interests and an additional non-voting member who represents industry interests will be included in addition to the voting members.
SUBCOMMITTEE
Temporary subcommittees consisting of two or more Committee members may be established, in consultation with the DFO, by the Commissioner or designee as needed to address specific issues within their respective areas of expertise.
Subcommittees make preliminary recommendations and/or reports regarding specific issues for the full Committee’s consideration. The Department Committee Management Officer shall be notified upon establishment of each subcommittee, and shall be provided information on its name, membership, function, and estimated frequency of meetings. Subcommittees must report back to the parent committee, and must not provide advice or work products directly to the agency.
RECORDKEEPING
Meetings of the Committee and its subcommittees will be conducted according to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, other applicable laws and Departmental policies. Committee and subcommittee records
will be handled in accordance with General Records Schedule 6.2, Federal Advisory Committee Records or other approved agency records disposition schedule. These records will be available for public inspection and copying, subject to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552.
FILING DATE
October 6, 2023
Approved:
September 28, 2023
Date
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Russell Fortney
Director, Advisory Committee Oversight and Management Staff