Bluefish and Hasenpfeffer Insights into Career Development

Demystifying Medicine
Seminar Series 2015
DATE:
Monday,
October 19, 2015
TIME:
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
LOCATION:
MDCL 3020
WEBSITE:
www.demystifyingmedicine.ca
CONTACT INFO:
Dr. Kjetil Ask
[email protected]
or Sara Sellers ext. 76706
Bluefish and Hasenpfeffer
Insights into Career
Development
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Steve Gyorffy
Director of Oncology,
Boehringer Ingelheim Canada Ltd.
Dr. Ted Witek
Senior Vice President, Corporate Partnerships,
Clinical and Medical Affairs, Theravance, Inc.
Senior Fellow, Institute of Health Policy, Management,
and Evaluation of The University of Toronto
Adjunct Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
and Faculty of Pharmacy
Past President and Chief Executive Officer,
Boehringer Ingelheim in Canada Ltd.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
•To gain understanding of career development in science
and the pharmaceutical industry
Department of Medicine
•How your scientific knowledge and skills may prepare you
for a future outside of academia
•How new agents are funded and made accessible to
patients?
Continuing Health
Sciences Education
•Become familiar with challenges beyond drug registration
and bridging the “second valley of death” for the
pharmaceutical industry