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J. Gordon Still is a board-certified pediatrician and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. His 29 year career in medicine has spanned clinical practice, academic appointments, and clinical research positions in the pharmaceutical industry and in contract research organizations. Dr. Still served as attending physician and director of an urban pediatric group practice while maintaining a part-time academic position at The University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Subsequently, he held scientific and management roles at Glaxo, Inc. as director of dermatological and antiinfective clinical research programs and subsequently as a research physician providing leadership for development for a wide variety of new pharmaceutical agents. Dr. Still left Glaxo to join the pediatric faculty at Duke University Medical Center, where he developed a clinical trials network linking community practices with a university medical center clinical research program for evaluation of new pharmaceuticals and vaccines in pediatric patients. As a full-time academician, he was an ongoing consultant to the pharmaceutical industry contributing to development of a wide variety of agents, including immune modulators and other products for treatment of infectious diseases. Throughout the remainder of the 1990s, Dr. Still served in the following positions: Global Director of Medical Affairs for ClinTrials Research while continuing academic activities at Duke University Medical Center; Vice President of Medical Affairs and Clinical Quality for MedTrust Inc., and Vice President of Pediatric Drug Development for Parexel International. Next, Dr. Still served as Chief Medical Officer for Nobex Corporation, where he was responsible for all product research & development. Prior to joining Cempra, he was Vice President and Global Head of Respiratory and Infectious Diseases for i3 Research. Dr. Still received his M.D.-Ph.D. degrees from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, and he completed post-graduate training in basic physiology and pharmacology followed by internship and residency at The University of Virginia Medical Center. | 