Paul Rothman
Chief Executive Officer
Merck & Co Inc
Germany
Biography
Dr. Paul B. Rothman serves as Independent Director of the Company. Dr. Rothman oversees the Johns Hopkins Health System and school of medicine. A rheumatologist and molecular immunologist, he joined Johns Hopkins in July 2012 after having served as dean of the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa and leader of its clinical practice plan since 2008. He previously served as head of internal medicine at the University of Iowa from 2004 until 2008. Prior to that, he was vice chairman for research and founding director of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he joined the faculty in 1986. Dr. Rothman is a 1980 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned his medical degree from Yale University in 1984. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He was elected to the council of Association of American Physicians as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and as a member of the American Clinical and Climatological Association.
Research Interest
Pharmaceutics & Biopharmaceutics Drug Targeting & Drug Development Pharmaceutical Research Pharmaceutical Materials Pharmaceutical Formulations Pharmaceutical Biotechnology