Theodore Tsai MD

Dr Theodore Tsai is Senior VP for Scientific Affairs for Novartis Vaccines. Dr. Tsai received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, and completed a Paediatrics residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He served as a Public Health Service medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he worked for 25 years as a medical virologist and medical epidemiologist, principally on vectorborne viral diseases. After leaving the Public Health Service, Dr Tsai joined the vaccine industry and worked on clinical development of experimental respiratory virus vaccines and in medical affairs on influenza and other vaccines. He joined Novartis Vaccines in 2006 where he now heads Scientific Affairs.