Dr. Echols has served as our Chief Medical Officer since January 2005. From 1997 to 2004, Dr. Echols served as Vice President of Infectious Disease Clinical Research and Development at Bristol Myers Squibb. He was Medical Director at Immunex Corporation from 1996 to 1997 and as Medical Director at Bayer Corporation from 1989 to 1996. Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Echols was Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Albany Medical College and an attending physician at Albany Medical College. Dr. Echols holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the University of New Mexico. |