Distinguished Speaker
Dr. Tachi Yamada, Gates Foundation
Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 5:00 PM
Blau Auditorium, Ross School of Business
Dr. Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada is President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program. In this capacity he oversees grants totaling over $7 billion in programs directed at applying technologies to address major health challenges of the developing world including TB, HIV, malaria and other infectious diseases, malnutrition and maternal and child health. He was formerly Chairman, Research and Development and a Member of the Board of Directors of GlaxoSmithKline.
Dr. Yamada was born in Japan, and completed his education in the United States. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in history and obtained his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine. After completing his internal medicine training at the Medical College of Virginia he became an investigator in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, trained in gastroenterology at the UCLA School of Medicine and assumed his first faculty position there. He later moved to the University of Michigan where he ultimately became Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the University of Michigan Medical Center before joining GlaxoSmithKline.
