Archive for the 'Physicians' Category

Henry Hsu, MD

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Henry Hsu, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, CoMentis, a pharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of small-molecule drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and cognitive disorders. (more…)

August M. Watanabe, MD

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

August M. Watanabe, MD, joined Frazier Healthcare Ventures in 2005 as Senior Advisor to the Biopharma team.   (more…)

Jospeh Amprey, MD, PhD

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Joe Amprey is a member of the Metastatix Board of Directors and is also a Principal at MedImmune Ventures. (more…)

Drew Senyei, MD

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Drew Senyei, MD, is a managing director at Enterprise Partners  where he leads the life science practice. Drew focuses on investments in pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices and consumer healthcare. (more…)

Peter Hanson, MD

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Dr. Hanson’s book The Joy of Stress has sold over a million copies in twenty languages, followed by his other bestsellers, Stress for Success and Counterattack. (more…)

Carrolee Barlow, MD, PhD

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Dr. Barlow joined BrainCells, Inc. (BCI), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of breakthrough small molecule therapeutics for diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), in August 2004. She is the Chief Scientific Officer of the company.

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Grandon Lecture

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Today I attended an interesting lecture at Jefferson Medical College sponsored by the Department of Health Policy. John O. Agwunobi, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., Senior Vice President, and President, Health and Wellness, Wal-Mart Stores Division, and former Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, gave the 17th Annual Dr. Raymond C. Grandon Lecture, “Bridging the Worlds of Business and Public Health.” (more…)

W. Scott Harkonen, MD

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

W. Scott Harkonen, MD, is President and Chief Executive Officer of CoMentis, a biotechnology company. (more…)

Brad Nieder, MD

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Some call him the Funny Doctor. Some call him the Phunny Physician. Still others call him Ethyl. To most, though, he’s known as The Healthy Humorist. (more…)

Carl A. Hammerschlag, MD

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

A master storyteller, internationally recognized author, physician, speaker and healer, Dr. Carl A. Hammerschlag is a Yale-trained psychiatrist who has spent more than twenty years working with Native Americans. (more…)