James R. Gavin III M.D. Ph.D. age 60 has served as a Director of Baxter since 2003. Since January 2005 Dr. Gavin has been Clinical Professor of Medicine and Senior Advisor of Health Affairs at Emory University and since March 2005 he also has been Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs at Healing Our Village LLC in Atlanta. From July 2002 to January 2005 Dr. Gavin was President of the Morehouse School of Medicine and from 1991 to July 2002 he was Senior Science Officer at Howard Hughes Medical Institute a nonprofit medical research organization. From 1987 to 1991 he was at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center as a Professor and as Chief of the Diabetes Section and Acting Chief of the Section on Endocrinology Metabolism and Hypertension. Dr. Gavin also serves as a director of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and MicroIslet Inc. |