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Simon N. Pimstone

Simon N. Pimstone MBChB, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Cardiology, Internal Medicine and General Medicine
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

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Dr. Simon Pimstone received his MD from the University of Cape Town. He is an Internal Medicine specialist (FRCPC, UBC, 2001) with an interest in cardiovascular disease. Prior to his specialization, he trained as a clinical research fellow with the Department of Medical Genetics at UBC and obtained his PhD through the University of Amsterdam in cardiovascular genetics in 1998.

Dr. Pimstone serves as consultant physician at the UBC Medical and Cardiology Clinic at UBC Hospital in Vancouver. He is a founder and co-PI of the Study to Avoid cardioVascular events in BC (SAVE BC), a provincial program screening families with very premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Pimstone is also a founder, Director, and President and Chief Executive Officer at Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc., one of Canada’s leading publicly traded biotechnology companies (Nasdaq: XENE). He has also held positions on a number of life sciences and biotechnology boards.
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