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Safety Evaluator
United States Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Samantha Cotter is a pharmacist and safety evaluator in the Division of Pharmacovigilance within the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Silver Spring, Maryland. Samantha has over 20 years of experience working in clinical pharmacy, and 12 years working in research at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Samantha graduated from the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy with her PharmD and completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, and an FDA-Institute of Safe Medications Practices (ISMP) Safe Medication Management Fellowship. She has also served as adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell for the past fifteen years, teaching pharmacology to Nurse Practitioner students.
