Dr. Brett P. Giroir has 35 years of experience as a physician, scientist and innovator dedicated to improving public health and medical science. Brett currently serves as Chief Executive Officer at Altesa Biosciences. Formerly, he served as the 16th Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Acting FDA Commissioner and Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. He also acted as the U.S. Representative to the Executive Board of the World Health Organization within the Department of State and was on the front lines of the COVID-19 response as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Brett was the first physician to be appointed an Office Director at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and led the Blue-Ribbon Panel for the Veterans Choice Act Reform of the VA Health System. His academic career included serving as Professor and Executive Vice President and CEO of the Texas A&M Health Science Center and Vice Chancellor for the Texas A&M University System. Prior to that, Brett served as a tenured professor and holder of two endowed chairs at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Health in Dallas. He has served on numerous Boards, including the Texas Medical Center, the MD Anderson Cancer Center Moonshot Program and the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at the University of Michigan. Brett earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard University and Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He completed his post-doctoral training in pediatrics and pediatric critical care at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and was a NIH Pediatric Scientist Training Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Bruce Beutler.