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Dr. Keith assumed the position of President and Chief Operating Officer of Panacea Pharmaceuticals in 2006. He is responsible for leading the Companyıs therapeutic and diagnostic product development and commercialization, along with business development.
Prior to joining Panacea Dr. Keith was a Senior Consultant with the Biologics Consulting Group, and a Managing Director with Glocap Advisors LLC, a boutique investment bank providing investment advisory services related to equity and debt financing, and merger & acquisition transactions. Dr. Keith was a General Partner with Emerging Technology Partners, from 2002-2003. Emerging Technology Partners is an early-stage life sciences venture capital firm located in Rockville, Maryland.
Dr. Keith has held a range of senior management positions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Just prior to joining ETP, he held the position of President and Chief Operating Officer, Antex Biologics Inc. From 1995 to 2000, Dr. Keith served as Vice President, Marketing and Sales, at North American Vaccine, Inc. From 1990 to 1995, Dr. Keith held various positions at Merck & Co., Inc., including Senior Director, Health Care Delivery Policy in Corporate Public Affairs, Senior Customer Manager in the U.S. Human Health Division, and Senior Director, Health Strategies, in the Merck-Medco Managed Care Division.
Dr. Keith completed his undergraduate work at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973, and he received the M.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1977. Dr. Keith completed a three-year residency in Pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles, Center for the Health Sciences in 1980. From 1980 to 1982, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at UCLA, during which time he received a Masters in Science in Public Health from UCLA and completed a majority of the courses toward a Masters in Business Administration at the UCLA Graduate School of Management. During this same period he conducted research at the Rand Corporation in health manpower policy analysis. From 1982 to 1987, Dr. Keith served on the faculty of the Charles Drew Medical School and the UCLA School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. From 1987 to 1990, Dr. Keith served as a Health Policy Advisor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, under Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Dr. Keith is a Fellow of the Academy of Pediatrics and a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics. | 