(Lia Shaked)
Welcome to this week s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news or the bad from your shop, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.
UnitedHealthcare
(Skyflow)
Fawad Butt, the former chief data officer for UnitedHealthcare, joined data sharing startup Skyflow s healthcare business. Butt, who is also formerly a chief data governance officer of Kaiser Permanente, will serve as a strategic advisor for the healthcare business, officials said.
He will be focused on delivering privacy-first COVID-19 solutions as part of their recently announced Skyflow for Healthcare, they said in a release.
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Centessa Pharmaceuticals ( Centessa ), a pharmaceutical company consisting of 10 subsidiary companies advancing a portfolio of high conviction programs with strong biological validation, today announced key additions to its leadership team. Gregory Weinhoff, M.D., MBA, joined the team as chief financial officer, while Mary Lynne Hedley, Ph.D., Robert M. Califf, M.D., MACC, and Samarth Kulkarni, Ph.D., joined Centessa s board of directors effective February 23, 2021. Centessa launched last month with a goal of redefining pharmaceutical R&D productivity through an asset-centric model that we believe has the potential to support the advancement of novel programs by industry-leading experts in their respective fields, said Saurabh Saha, M.D., Ph.D., chief executive officer of Centessa. Each member of our team brings industry-leading qualifications and differentiated perspectives to help guide the expansion of our organization. We are thrilled to welcome Greg, Mary Lynne, Robert
Board-Certified Dermatologist/Pigmentary Disease Expert: Can Stress Trigger or Exacerbate Vitiligo?
Seemal Desai, MD, FAAD, is a board-certified dermatologist, pigmentary disease expert, and clinical assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Increased stress over the last year has taken its toll on everyone, but for the millions of people worldwide living with vitiligo a skin disease that causes the skin to lose its natural color new research suggests that the effects of stress may be more than skin deep.
Research published in the
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology assessed perceptions of stress from 535 people with vitiligo to understand how stress affects the disease and its progression. According to the study, more than half of those who participated shared that stress triggered their vitiligo. The findings also suggest that people with a family history of vitiligo, women, and people with a personal history of al
The New Frontiers in Biomedical Research will continue its COVID-19 series with the first lecture in the Spring Quarter. The seminar will focus on Health Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic at 3:30 p.m. CST Monday, March 29, on WebEx.
Dr. Heidi Y. Lawrence, Associate Professor of English at George Mason University and Scott Barrows, Director of OSF Innovation Design Lab, Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center; Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria; and Clinical Assistant Professor in Biomedical Visualization at the University of Illinois Chicago Medical Center, will share their recent involvement in written and visual communication related to COVID-19 vaccine education.