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Bruce D. Given, M.D.SemBioSys - Biography
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Bruce D. Given, M.D.
Acting Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Bruce Given serves as a Healthcare Products Consultant as the Principal of Bruce Given Consulting and is Acting Chief Medical Officer of SemBioSys Genetics Inc.Until June of 2007, Dr. Given served as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of Encysive Pharmaceuticals, which he joined in 2002.Prior to joining Encysive Pharmaceuticals, he was with Johnson & Johnson for nine years, serving in several capacities including as President, International, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics and as Group Vice President, Head of U.S. Marketing & Sales, Research & Development for Janssen Pharmaceutica.He has held various executive and senior management positions at Sandoz Pharma Ltd., Sandoz Research Institute and Schering-Plough Corporation.Prior to entering the pharmaceutical industry, he was on the medical faculty at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Given obtained his B.Sc degree from Colorado State University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.He received his M.D. degree with honors from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his medical training at the University of Chicago and at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School.He is board certified in internal medicine and endocrinology and metabolism and has authored 33 scientific publications.
Dr. Given serves on the Boards of Directors for ICON Plc and BioHouston, where he is Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Board, is a member of the Technology Review Committee of MD Anderson Medical Center and is past Chairman of the Rider University Scientific Advisory Board.