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The USPHS Commissioned Corps is committed to our mission to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of the nation. Public Health Service officers are trained and equipped to provide crucial public health leadership, assist with policy development, advance innovation and science, provide essential care services and respond to national and global public health emergencies. Through our Active Duty Regular Corps, our Public Health Response Strike Team (PHERST) and our Ready Reserve Corps, we remain responsive and available to rapidly deploy in the service of health.
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Commissioned Corps Headquarters
Deputy Director of CCHQ,
Division of Commissioned Corps Services (DCCS)
Cedric B. Guyton, PharmD, MPH, GWCPM, RPh
RDML Guyton is a Pharmacy officer who serves as the Deputy Director for Commissioned Corps Services. RDML Guyton was assigned to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2015 until 2019. In last assignment RDML Guyton served as Associate Director for Knowledge Management and Innovation within the Office of Biotechnology Products (OBP). In that role, RDML Guyton advised the OBP Director on the integration of the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality strategic priorities involving IT systems integration, labeling reviewing, and IND assignments. In his previous position with FDA, RDML Guyton served as the Senior Program Management officer within the Office of Manufacturing Quality/Immediate Office where he was responsible for effectively communicating with over 45 Compliance Officers to ensure the uniform application of risk-based, patient-focused compliance and enforcement policies.
RDML Guyton’s prior assignments as a Commissioned Corps Officer included serving as the Lead Project Officer within the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Policy and Programs Group and CMMI Liaison to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). While at CMMI, RDML Guyton oversaw management of $92M in cooperative agreements and lead coordination with ONC to introduce innovative CMMI Healthcare Innovation Award models to other HHS OPDIVs. Prior to serving in CMMI, RDML Guyton served as Defense Health Information Management Systems Director of Interagency and Imaging, where as a Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act Level III Program Management professional, he was responsible for management of $120M in Health IT development, integration, and sustainment contracts. In his first Corps assignment, RDML Guyton served as clinical staff pharmacist in Whiteriver, AZ then transferred to the Tucson Area Indian Health Service (IHS) in 2007 as Chief Pharmacist of the San Xavier Indian Health Center. Also, during his tour of duty in Tucson, AZ RDML Guyton served as a Tucson Area IHS Clinical Applications Coordinator and Teleradiology program project officer.
RDML Guyton has served in multiple leadership roles as a Corps officer such as Black Commissioned Officers Advisory Group (BCOAG) Senior Advisor, President Tucson Area Commissioned Officers Association, and Vice Chair BCOAG. RDML Guyton has been responsible for the recruitment of several officers to the United States Public Health Service and has served as a mentor of many more officers during his career.
RDML Guyton’s career experience has enabled him to recognize and create synergistic opportunities to advance and implement change management processes, develop systems and evaluate complex problem areas to produce programs that promote efficiency, expanded capabilities and increased strategic collaboration.
RDML Guyton is a native of Thomasville, GA and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Albany State University (GA), Master’s in Public Health/Epidemiology and a Doctor of Pharmaceutical Sciences degree from Florida A&M University. RDML Guyton has also received his Master Certificate in Program Management from George Washington University, HHS Level III certification in Program/Project Management and Contract Officer Representative.