John Ruedy, MDCM. FRCPC, LLD (hon) has served as a director of the Company since 1987. Dr. Ruedy, a physician specialist in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology, has served in a number of key academic positions including Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Head of the Department of Medicine at St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, a teaching hospital of the University of British Columbia, and from 1992-1999 as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University. He currently serves as Vice President, Academic Affairs, Capital District Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, the major clinical teaching facility of the Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University. He has extensive experience in clinical trials of drugs and has served on a number of Canadian and international committees dealing with regulatory issues concerning new drugs and devices. He currently is Chairman of the Board of Person to Person Health Care, a tele technology company based in Nova Scotia, Canada. |