Steven Kesten, M.D. joined Cytori as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer in February 2013. Previously, he served as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Uptake Medical from November 2010 to February 2013 and at Boehringer Ingelheim from 2000 to 2010, mostly recently as the Vice President, Medicine for Marketed Products for Respiratory Disease. Prior to that, he served as the medical director of the Rush Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Program at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center from 1996 to 1999; in 1995 as the medical director of the Toronto Lung Transplant Program at the University of Toronto; and as a staff pulmonologist at Toronto General Hospital and Toronto Western Hospital from 1989 to 1996. He also served as a faculty member of the University of Toronto and an associate professor of medicine at Rush Medical College. Dr. Kesten received his medical degree and specialty training in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine at the University of Toronto.

Source: Plus Therapeutics, Inc. on 03/15/2016