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Pete Piliero
Peter Piliero is currently the Vice President and Head of Medical Affairs Americas at GSK Consumer Healthcare. In this role he leads medical and scientific professionals working across various consumer categories to enable innovative solutions for consumers. He is responsible for the US, Canada, and LATAM.
Dr. Piliero is recognized as a Medical Affairs expert having held various leadership positions over the last 16 years at Merck, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Mallinckrodt. In his 12 years at Boehringer Ingelheim, he led various therapeutic areas in Clinical Development & Medical Affairs including Consumer Health Care, Virology, Immunology, CNS, Metabolism, and Women’s Health. At Merck, Pete led all of US Medical Affairs (except Oncology) and Global Medical Information. And at Mallinckrodt, Pete was responsible for the global Medical strategy for the Critical Care therapeutic areas, for the overall strategic planning, governance and management of the global Field Medical organization, and for global Scientific Affairs.
Since 2017, Pete has been a very active member of the Medical Affairs Professional Society and currently is on the Board of Directors and leads the Strategy and Launch Excellence Focus Area Working Group. Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry, Pete practiced for 11 years as an Infectious Disease specialist providing patient care and conducting clinical research at Albany Medical College.
João Dias
Dr. João Dias is an honors graduate of the University of Helsinki. He received his Licentiate/MSc in biochemistry from the Universities of Porto, Portugal and Wageningen, the Netherlands; and his PhD studies in Immuno-Oncology and Gene Therapy at Helsinki University Central Hospital and Helsinki University, faculty of Medicine.
He is currently responsible for international medical affairs and clinical development for the medical devices and diagnostics portfolio at Haemonetics which includes Hemostasis Management, Cell Salvage and Transfusion Management products. Prior to this role, João had a variety of roles of increasing responsibility in the areas of both market access and medical marketing.
He has authored several peer-reviewed publications and white papers in the fields of Hemostasis, Patient Blood Management, Immuno-Oncology, Gene Therapy, Hematology, and Molecular Biology.
Prior to his tenure at Haemonetics, João worked as a scientist in the development of new products in Cancer Gene Therapy and served as a Life Sciences Consultant working together with multiple global life-science companies.”
