Pediatric Medical Device Development; Public Meeting; Request for Comments

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is announcing the following public meeting entitled ``Pediatric Medical Device Development.'' The purpose of the public meeting is to identify strategies to enhance the medical device ecosystem to cultivate development and innovation of devices that serve the unique needs of pediatric populations. (The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) defines pediatric patients, for medical device purposes, as age 21 years or younger at the time of diagnosis or treatment and specifies categories of pediatric subpopulations.) Topics for discussion will include ways to improve research infrastructure and research networks to facilitate the conduct of clinical studies of pediatric devices, extrapolation, use of postmarket registries and data to increase pediatric medical device labeling, assistance to medical device manufacturers in developing devices for pediatric populations, and identifying barriers to pediatric device development and incentives to address such barriers.