Simon Pimstone has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2003.  Prior to this, he served as Xenon's Chief Operating Officer and  VP, Clinical and Medical Affairs.  Dr. Pimstone is a scientific co-founder of Xenon and has served as a Board member since the inception of the Company. He has served as a consultant physician at the St. Paul’s Hospital Lipid Clinic, Vancouver, BC, and an investigator in the Clinical Trials Unit of the Lipid Clinic.  Dr. Pimstone is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.  He was previously Clinical Director of the Healthy Heart Society British Columbia Lipid Clinic Outreach Program, a network of lipid clinics serving approximately 4 million people. He received his MD from the University of Cape Town where he practiced medicine. He is an internal medicine specialist with an interest and expertise in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Pimstone has had extensive training as a clinical and research fellow with the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia and obtained his PhD through the University of Amsterdam in cardiovascular genetics.