Peter Covitz

Bio:

Peter is currently Executive Director and Head of Digital Innovation, Data Generation & Managed Access in Global Medical Affairs at Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease.  In the past he has led R&D programs in discovery, clinical, and post-market stages as well as software and technology programs for life science.  Peter earned his Ph.D. in microbiology at Columbia University, completed a post-doctoral fellowship in genomics and bioinformatics at Stanford University, and was formerly Chief Operating Officer at the U.S. National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics.