Tom Shimabukuro, MD, MPH, MBA

Deputy Director and later Director, Immunization Safety Office, CDC

Senior CDC vaccine safety official who in June 2022 lauded FDA's EB data mining as the 'gold standard' for disproportionality analysis.

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Timeline appearances (4)

  • analysis

    Menschik circulates safety signal list and a draft presentation on MGPS limitations to FDA and CDC officials.

  • oversight

    Sen. Johnson writes to Collins, Walensky, Woodcock, Marks, and Shimabukuro about federal safety surveillance systems and reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination.

  • internal

    Zinderman sends what records suggest is FDA's final weekly COVID-19 vaccine data mining report.

  • internal

    Menschik confirms FDA is no longer routinely sending COVID-19 vaccine data mining to CDC.

Quotes (1)

  • "'gold standard' for disproportionality analysis"
    CDC's Shimabukuro internally lauded FDA's EB data mining and stated that it supersedes other data mining methods from the perspective of generating informative data. · 2022-06 view in /quotes/ →