David L. Gollaher was the founding President & CEO of the California Healthcare Institute (CHI), 1993–2014, from which he joined Gilead Sciences where, from 2014 to 2018, he headed worldwide Government Affairs and Policy. Subsequently, in early 2019, he moved to head policy and government affairs at

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, an emerging growth company focused on infectious diseases. He retired from Vir in 2021. He was appointed Senior Fellow at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California in 2018. Gollaher is an historian of science and medicine, and public policy executive. He completed undergraduate studies at

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and received his masters and Ph.D. degrees from

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. Subsequently, he was a fellow of Harvard's

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, the

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and is a member of the

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. Gollaher's biographical study, ''Voice for the Mad: The Life of

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'' received the

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' 1996

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. His 2000 study ''Circumcision: A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery'' was the first full medical scholarly history of the subject. In 1993, after several years as a member of the executive team at

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, Gollaher worked with California biotechnology industry leaders to found CHI, a public policy research and advocacy organization that grew to represent more than 360 California academic institutions, biopharmaceutical companies, medical technology and professional firms. After he left CHI, the organization merged with BayBio to create the California Life Sciences Association (CLSA). In 2003, he was appointed to the

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's Stem Cell Advisory Panel, and to the U.S. Congressional Homeland Security Advisory Committee. Gollaher has served on the Advisory Board of the J. David Gladstone Institutes, the California Council on Science and Technology, and the Board of Overseers for

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. In September 2018, he joined the board of Cidara Therapeutics. Outside life sciences, he was a co-founder and is board member of Vision Robotics Corporation, sharing patents in the field of autonomous robotic navigation.U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, United States Patent 7,228,203, Harvey Koselka, Bret Wallach, David Gollaher, June 5, 2007

Bibliography

*''California's Biomedical Industry: 2008 Report'' (CHI/PriceWaterhouseCoopers: 2008) *''California Biomedical Industry Report: 2010'' (CHI/BayBio/PwC) *''Competitiveness and Regulation: The FDA and the Future of America's Biomedical Industry'' (CHI/Boston Consulting Group: February 2011) *''Circumcision: A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery'' (New York: Basic Books, 2000) *''Das verletzte Geschlecht: Die Geschichte der Beschneidung'' (Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 2002) *''Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix'' (New York: Free Press, 1995) *'The Paradox of

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,' ''New York Times'' January 7, 1998

Notes and references

External links

California Healthcare Institute homepage

California Council on Science and Technology homepage

Cidara Therapeutics homepage

Vision Robotics Corporation homepage

Gilead Sciences homepage

Vir Biotechnology homepage

David Gollaher@davidgollaher
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