Conference Dates: Sep 22, 2011
Waltham, MA[edit Location]
Is is possible to go from bioengineering to medical school and back to innovation successfully?
Dr. Peter Tippet, MD, VP of Technology and Innovation, and Chief Medical Officer at Verizon will describe the journey he took, along with the various paths open to an entrepreneur. It’s not limited to just a clinical setting or creating and growing a business. As an entrepreneur, he will also discuss how innovation happens within a large organization, and will give us his perspective on the Verizon Innovation Center in Waltham.
Peter Tippett is Vice President of Technology and Innovation for Verizon Business and is Verizon’s Chief Medical Officer. An information security pioneer, Tippett has led the computer security industry for more than 20 years, initially as a vendor of security products, and over the past 16 years, as a key strategist. He is widely credited with creating the first commercial anti-virus product that later became Norton AntiVirus. Dr. Tippett is best known for his creation of risk metrics and compliance management programs for enterprises. His current work at Verizon is focused on accelerating new infrastructures across both enterprise and health IT.
Tippett took up his current role following the 2007 acquisition of security specialist Cybertrust by Verizon Business. At Cybertrust, Tippett was the founder and chief technical officer and was instrumental in developing the Cybertrust Security Management Program, which has served over 1,000 organizations for 12 years. He was also chairman of MD-IT, a leading medical documentation services vendor.
Tippett has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Kalamazoo College, and holds an M.D. (internal medicine) and a Ph.D. (biochemistry) from Case Western Reserve University. He has worked as an emergency room doctor and as a helicopter emergency physician in both Ohio and California. He still carries a current California physician and surgeon license. Tippett also worked as a lab assistant for Nobel Laureates Robert Bruce Merrifield (who won the prize for chemistry in 1984) and Stanford Moore (chemistry, 1972) at Rockefeller University. He began his career as a commercial pilot and flight instructor and worked as a radio engineer at a US Top-40 radio station during college
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