To better your understanding of non-clinical career options and/or facilitate your physician career change, today we introduce you to Tadataka Yamada, MD. Dr. Yamada joined Frazier Healthcare Ventures in 2006 as a Senior Advisor to the biopharma team.
Currently, Dr. Tadataka Yamada is the president of the Global Health Program for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations. In this role Dr. Yamada leads the foundation’s efforts to help develop and deliver low-cost, life-saving health tools for the developing world. He also oversees the foundations global health grant portfolio and Global Health Advocacy program. Prior to the foundation, Dr. Yamada served as Chairman of Research and Development and was a member of the Board of Directors at GlaxoSmithKline. Prior to GlaxoSmithKline, Dr. Yamada was chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and Physician-in-Chief at the University of Michigan Medical Center.
Dr. Yamada is a past President of the American Gastroenterological Association and the Association of American Physicians, a Master of the American College of Physicians, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science in the United States, and the Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom. Dr. Yamada is a graduate of Stanford University and received his medical degree from New York University.
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