President of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
5:00 p.m.
Hermes A. Medical Sciences Building Auditorium
1217 E. Marshall Street
Dr. Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's efforts to reduce global health inequities by investing in affordable new vaccines, therapies, and diagnostics for diseases that most gravely burden the world's poor, and by developing new partnerships to shape the future of global public health. In his presentation, Dr. Yamada will speak to his vision of the foundation's current and future role, and more broadly, to the shared priorities and approaches most important to securing major public health successes in the future.
Dr. Tadataka Yamada is president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program and was a previous intern and resident at MCV. He was formerly Chairman, Research and Development and a Member of the Board of Directors of GlaxoSmithKline. A scientist and scholar in gastroenterology, Dr. Yamada is the author of more than 150 original manuscripts on the subject and is the editor of The Textbook of Gastroenterology. The studies undertaken by Dr. Yamada and his collaborators led to basic discoveries in the post-translational processing and biological activation of peptide hormones, the structure and function of receptors for hormones regulating gastric acid secretion, and the regulation of genes involved in the acid secretory process.
Free and open to the public. Parking is available for a fee in the MCV Hospital parking deck. If special accommodations are needed, please contact the VCU Libraries at (804) 828-4640 or (804) 827-1165 prior to February 13.
Co-sponsored by the VCU Libraries and the MCV Campus Programs Office of the University Student Commons & Activities.