NEW YORK, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pfizer Inc announced today
the election of Dennis A. Ausiello, M.D. to the Pfizer Board of Directors
effective December 1, 2006.
Dr. Ausiello, 61, has deep experience and a distinguished record of
leadership and accomplishment in scientific research and medicine, areas of
critical importance to Pfizer. He will serve on the Science and Technology
Committee of the Pfizer Board which reviews the company's research and
development and technology initiatives.
Dr. Ausiello is the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard
Medical School and Chief of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
(MGH). He also is an internationally recognized research scientist for his
substantial contributions in cell biology.
As chief of medicine at MGH for the last decade, Dr. Ausiello leads one
of the most renowned departments of medicine in the United States with an
annual clinical, research and education budget of more than $500 million.
He oversees the training of graduate and undergraduate medical students,
post- doctoral fellows and house officers at Harvard Medical School. He
earlier served as chief of MGH's renal unit and oversaw the development of
one of the world's leading research and training programs in kidney
disease.
Dr. Ausiello currently serves as president of the Association of
American Physicians, a leading organization of academic physicians. He was
elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in
1999 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He is the
recipient of two MERIT awards from the National Institutes of Health and
has served as a member of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and
Kidney Diseases Advisory Council and the National Advisory Council on
Aging.
Dr. Ausiello serves on the Board of Directors of MicroCHIPS, a drug-
sensing and delivery company, and is an advisor to the Chairman of the
Board of TIAX (formerly Arthur D. Little).
Dr. Ausiello has published more than 150 papers and book chapters and
co- edits Cecil's Textbook of Medicine, now in its 22nd edition. He also
has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Boston
Globe.
He is a 1967 cum laude graduate of Harvard College, where he received a
Bachelors degree in Biochemical Sciences, and of the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he received his medical degree in
1971.
SOURCE Pfizer Inc
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