Burton E. Sobel, M.D., one of our Directors since June 2002, has been E.L. Amidon Professor and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Vermont since 1994. He was also Physician-in-Chief from 1994 to 2005 and is currently, Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute since 2005 at the University of Vermont. Dr. Sobel was a trustee of Fletcher Allen Health Care Center, in Burlington, Vermont from 1998 to 2004. Previously, he held senior academic and administrative positions at Washington University School of Medicine, from 1973 to 1994, and at the University of California, San Diego, from 1968 to 1973. Dr. Sobel is a director of New River Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, Nuvelo, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, and Clinical Data, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. Dr. Sobel completed postgraduate training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston and the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda and received his M.D. degree from Harvard University and his A.B. from Cornell University. |