To better your understanding of non-clinical career options and/or facilitate your physician career change, today we introduce you to W. Richey Neuman, MD, MPH, FACP. Dr. Neuman is Vice President and Disease Area Lead for Vaccines at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, where he is the lead physician for vaccine activities.
Prior to that, he was a Senior Director in Global Medical Affairs at Wyeth (now Pfizer) Pharmaceuticals, in charge of activities pertaining to the adult indication for the investigational 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Dr. Neuman obtained his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and completed residency in general internal medicine at the Oregon Health Sciences University. Following residency, Dr. Neuman was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University School of Medicine, followed with additional training as an Ambulatory Care Fellow at Yale. Prior to medical school, Dr. Neuman received a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University, a Masters of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked as a toxicologist/epidemiologist at the State of California Department of Health. Dr. Neuman Joined Wyeth in 2005. Prior to that, from 1997 to 2005 Dr. Neuman was Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he still teaches clinical epidemiology and in the internal medicine residents’ clinic. Dr. Neuman has lectured
internationally on topics in internal medicine, clinical epidemiology, and adult pneumococcal vaccinology.
