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Theodore J. Witek – Senior VP Corporate Partnerships and Chief Scientific Officer Innovia, Senior Fellow, IHPME

Ted Witek, DrPH, MPh, MBA, Dr. Ted Witek is a health care advisor and scholar based in Toronto and Lisbon. He currently serves as Senior Vice President, Corporate Partnerships, and Chief Scientific Officer at Innoviva in San Francisco (formerly Theravance, Inc). He is also appointed a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation (IHPME) of The University of Toronto and Adjunct Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Faculty of Pharmacy. Dr. Witek holds a Doctor of Public Health degree from Columbia University, a Master of Public Health from Yale University, and a Master of Business Administration from Henley Management College in London. He completed advanced executive leadership programs at Tuck/Dartmouth and INSEAD/Paris. He has authored over 100 manuscripts and chapters in the field of respiratory public health and drug development, including the textbook Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Respiratory Care.