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Peter Tippett (born 1953 in
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) is an American physician, researcher, and inventor known for contributions to
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,
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, and technology. These contributions include the development of the
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"Corporate Vaccine". Tippett was Vice President of
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's Innovations Incubator and Chief Medical Officer for Verizon Enterprise Services from 2009 to 2015. He is currently the Founder and CEO of careMESH Inc.


Early life and education

Born in 1953 and raised in Dearborn, Michigan, Tippett is an alumnus of
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and holds both a Ph.D. and M.D. from
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Case Western Reserve School of Medicine (CWRU SOM, CaseMed) is the medical school of Case Western Reserve University, a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It is the largest biomedical research center in Ohio. History On November 1 ...
. He studied at the
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in New York under Nobel Prize winner
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, directing his doctoral research efforts toward the metabolic indicators of
peptide synthesis In organic chemistry, peptide synthesis is the production of peptides, compounds where multiple amino acids are linked via amide bonds, also known as peptide bonds. Peptides are chemically synthesized by the condensation reaction of the carboxyl ...
. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, and spent 1975-1985 engaged in biochemical research.


Work history

While engaged in research at Case Western Reserve, Tippett moonlighted as an
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physician and instructor in Emergency and Outpatient Medicine and spent much of his early clinical career (1989-1995) in Emergency Medicine in Ohio and California. He received his board certification in Internal Medicine in 1987. Between 1993 and 2000, he served on the board of the Computer Ethics Institute. He served as executive director of The Pacific Foundation for Science and Medicine from 1988 to 1992, an intersection of his clinical career with an emerging focus on technology, particularly in the arena of cybersecurity as well as the use and access protocols of the Internet. It was in his role as president and chairman of Certus International, a publisher and developer of PC anti-virus and security software, that Tippett applied his research insights as a biochemist to the concept of computer "viruses" to develop the anti-virus software, "Vaccine," which was later purchased by
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in 1992. His CEO role with Cybertrust led to a merger of Cybertrust by Verizon and to Tippett's role in the Verizon healthcare and security innovations divisions. Tippett served as chairman of the Alliance for Internet Security in 2000. He represented Verizon on the board of directors of The Open Identity Exchange (OIX) and the
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.


Technological achievements

In addition to being credited with the development of one of the first anti-virus programs, "Vaccine", Tippett pioneered and commercialized a string of now-common technologies including what is now called the "Recovery Disk," processor image signatures, using hash-tables for trusted file execution and anomaly detection, aspects of
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and "un-do." He ran a
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for
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software before the first
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was created and was president of the Cleveland Osborne Group (a
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for the computers of the
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virus that broke in May 2000 and provided key information to the Department of Justice about David Smith, the writer of the
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. He was featured and on the cover of the August 2000 issue of Time Digital magazine.


Professional activities

Tippett's work in the cybersecurity space has led to roles as speaker, contributor and advisor to government and private sector organizations. From 2003-2005, he served on the President's Information Technology Committee (PITAC), established by Congress in 1997 under the
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to "guide the Administration's efforts to accelerate the development and adoption of information technologies vital for American prosperity in the 21st century." The
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awarded Tippett its first Leadership in Health Care Award at the Chamber’s first annual Health Care Summit (2012) for his leadership of Verizon's incubator. Tippett was also Chief Scientist for ICSA Labs and previously served as president of the
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. Tippett is currently an Adjunct Professor, Division of General Medical Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. In November 2017, T.E.N., a technology and information security executive networking and relationship-marketing firm, announced that Tippett was the recipient of the 2017 ISE® Luminary Leadership Award.


Clinical publications

* Tippett, P. S. (1975) ''Structural-Specificity Relationships of the Immunoglobulin Molecule and the Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis of two Antigen-binding Peptides''. Archives of Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI. * Corporale, L. L H.; Tippett, P. S.; Erickson, B. W.; and Hugli, T. E. (1980) ''The Active Site of C3a Anaphylatoxin.'' J. Biol. Chem. 255 10758-10763. * Tippett, P. S. and Neet, K. E. (1982) ''Specific Inhibition of Glucokinase by Long Chain Acyl CoAs Belos the Critical Micelle Concentration''. J. Biol. Chem. 257, 12839-12845. * Tippett, P. S. and Neet, K. E. (1982) ''An Allosteric Model for the Inhibition of Glucokinase by Long Chain Acyl CoA.'' J. Biol. Chem. 257, 12846-12852 * Tippett, P. S. (1981) ''Kinetics and Regulation of Rat Liver Glucokinase (Ph.D.)''. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Mi. * Tippett, P. S. and Neet, K. E. (1983) ''Interconversion Between Different Sulfhydryl-Related Kinetic States in Glucokinase.'' Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 222, 285-289. * Powell, G. L.; Tippett, P. S.; et al. (1985) ''Fatty acyl-CoA as an Effector Molecule in Metabolism.'' Federation Proceedings 44, 81-84. * Neet, K. E.; Tippett, P. S.; and Keenan, R. P. (1986) ''Regulatory Properties of Glucokinase, Regulation and Metabolism.'' Wiley, London. * Tippett, P. S. (1986) ''Regulation of Enzymes by Long Chain Acyl CoAs, Fact or Fantasy.'' Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 11.


References

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